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- World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests that toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today. It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes ...
- 1936 singles guide is fun, instructive (Detroit Free Press)
"The chances are that at some time in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence," wrote Vogue scribe Marjorie Hillis in the 1936 book "Live Alone and Like It."
- An immigrant poet straddles two worlds - Detroit Metro Times
Detroit Metro TimesAn immigrant poet straddles two worldsDetroit Metro Times, MI - 1 hour agoIt was nominated for the 2008 PEN American Center Beyond Borders Award. Before the book's release, she published work in several journals in India and the ...
- Sylvia Plath - guardian.co.uk
Sylvia Plathguardian.co.uk, UK - 59 minutes agoUnfortunately adopted as patron saint of a cult of angsty victimhood, her work overshadowed by her life, the power and precision of her poetry are ...
- National champs - Times-Journal
Many high school teams can claim a state championship, but the Geraldine Junior Beta Club is a national champion. The 70 members of the Beta Club returned to DeKalb County Wednesday from Myrtle Beach, S.C. touting the title after the Junior Beta Club ...
- Metal artists celebrate opening of gallery, guest house - Rapid City Journal
In the five years since Brett and Tammy Prang erected a 38-foot hand-welded metal cross over the family cemetery near Kadoka, the colossal piece has drawn hundreds of visitors and lots of attention. Now all that attention has inspired the Prangs to ...
- Beware the man in the masque - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukBeware the man in the masqueguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoMilton's "Mask, presented at Ludlow Castle" (later named Comus) extended the tradition to pastoral poetry, but it was also a play on the genre that ...
- Hey UK! U Kweer? - Boston IMC
Are you harboring queer sh*theads over there? Hitler Has a Pill for What Ails You! Bob Packer's Gonna "Fix Your Face"!....if you mess with this Gad damn article! He's gonna make your mother wish she never had you! GHW Bush says that they are paying ...
- Feel the pulse - Star-ecentral.com
FOUR years since the last Urbanscapes festival, and the music, art, film and fashion scene in Kuala Lumpur has moved on. Or has it really done so? The answer is a mixed one, with the healthy list of newcomers and familiar (yet relevant) names making ...
- Illuminate your spirit with enlightening books while vacationing - San Luis Obispo Tribune
Illuminate your spirit with enlightening books while vacationingSan Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - 7 hours agoMattie Stepanek, who died of a neuromuscular disease before he reached age 14, produced books of extremely insightful poetry and saw himself as "a poet, ...
- Ode to Chace??? - Fashion
Was Gossip Girl bad boy Ed Westwick drunk (or high) when he decided to recite poetry to entertainment news reporters ? Ed was at a Coke-sponsored party in the NYC this past week when he went on to share a poem from memory that he wrote “at like six ...
- Northeast Valley and Scottsdale News Briefs - Arizona Republic
Northeast Valley and Scottsdale News BriefsArizona Republic, AZ - 5 hours agoThe competition debuted in 2006 as a film festival, and later expanded to photography, visual arts, short story, poetry, original song and choreography. ...
- William Stafford's Poetry of False Witness (The New York Sun)
When William Stafford (1914-93) was given the National Book Award for poetry, for his 1962 collection "Traveling Through the Dark," the judges said of his poems that "their music knows the value of silence." This seems a dubious tribute. Would a composer be acclaimed for his mastery of rests? In fact, though Stafford often wrote about silence — and made grand claims for it — he was an unusually ...
- The City Has Moved Too Close to the Sun - MetroTimes
I have long said that a bad day in Detroit is better than a good day anywhere else in the world. Maybe I'm just burned out from traveling, but in recent years, I have roamed around the world more than a few times, and these experiences have only ...
- Pianist Vladimir Feltsman Brings Russia to La Jolla - SanDiego.com
Pianist Vladimir Feltsman Brings Russia to La JollaSanDiego.com, CA - 5 hours agoA dark, consistently dissonant piece of chamber music—the composer wrote it in response to his beloved mother’s death—it nevertheless ends with the peaceful ...
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