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- Champagne spotting - Sydney Morning Herald
I arrive at St Pancras International railway station in London, new home to the Eurostar terminal, without a trans-chunnel ticket to the continent in my back pocket. I don't have any fancy matching luggage, either. I do have a dog-eared return ticket ...
- Birds suddenly appear - The List
The ListBirds suddenly appearThe List, UK - 43 minutes agoUnlike the usual tourist headphone sets, the Hidden Gardens Audio Guide features poetry, botany and birdsong. ‘There’sa range of information on there,’ says ...
- The Edmonton Journal - Edmonton Journal
The Edmonton JournalEdmonton Journal, Canada - 11 hours ago... was born in England but moved to Edmonton as a child. Pooped of festivals? Tough. Edmonton's wicked Poetry Festival kicks off today. ...
- Odds favor Amos Oz for Nobel Prize in Literature - Christian Science Monitor
Odds favor Amos Oz for Nobel Prize in LiteratureChristian Science Monitor, MA - 12 hours agoAdonis (also known as Said) is viewed as a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry. Magris is a novelist, scholar, translator, and writer. ...
- Thursday, Aug. 7 - Andover Townsman
Third Annual Vehicle Night at Memorial Hall Library, 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Butler Bank parking lot. Fire, police, public works, and other special vehicles will be featured. For more information, visit the library's Web site at www.mhl.org/kids or ...
- Genocide's epic hero (International Herald Tribune)
The words Radovan Karadzic spoke on Oct. 14, 1991, were well beyond our middling imagination and the habits of normalcy we clung to as war loomed over us.
- The 10 best reasons to read this post - Examiner.com
Examiner.comThe 10 best reasons to read this postExaminer.com - 30 minutes agoThe memorial begins at 5 pm and features a performance by Michael Parsons & Friends, as well as some poetry written in honor of BJ On Tuesday, Sept. ...
- Making opera from the words of Emily Dickinson (San Jose Mercury News)
When her mother gave her a book of Dickinson's work as a birthday present, Dill was so overcome by the imagery that the words seared into her mind. Dickinson's poetry has served as her muse ever since, surfacing again and again in her innovative, text-infused multimedia projects encompassing sculpture, painting, photography, performance art, and now opera.
- Firefighters urge motorists to ‘Fill the Boot' - Business Gazette
Business GazetteFirefighters urge motorists to ‘Fill the Boot'Business Gazette, MD - 1 hour agoHe authored five books of poetry that made the New York Times bestseller list, gaining international attention and the friendship of such notables as Oprah ...
- 'Special people' - Waterloo Record
Waterloo Record'Special people'Waterloo Record, Canada - 4 hours agoThe couple imported books from Germany, used German curriculum and put an emphasis on culture, particularly theatre and poetry recitation. ...
- A Love To Die For: Massenet's 'Werther' - NPR
A Love To Die For: Massenet's 'Werther'NPR - 2 hours agoIn Act 3, when Charlotte asks Werther to read from some poetry he's been translating, he chooses a passage about the poet anticipating his own death, ...
- Madison hosts National Poetry Slam - Wisconsin State Journal
Eighteen has been good to Danez Smith. It's the age that he's come into his own, he says. And the age he was named Madison's Grand Slam Poetry Champion. It gets even better: Later this week, Smith (still 18), will perform his poetry in the national ...
- John Keats Through death to life - Economist
John Keats Through death to lifeEconomist, UK - 17 minutes agoKeats wrote not only superb poems but also wonderful, witty, revealing letters, out of which the poetry sometimes arises like a spontaneous growth. ...
- Mooresville man called ‘hero’ for volunteer work (Reporter-Times)
MOORESVILLE — Earlier this year, the Indianapolis Business Journal recognized Mooresville resident Don Perry, 75, as a finalist for its 2008 Healthcare Heroes award. Perry was among the top three volunteers in the state and was honored at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis during a March breakfast.
- The Big Necessity, By Rose George (Independent)
Anyone who can invest the ugly, all-too-common, carping crow with romance, history and a personality deserves an award, but possibly simply being allowed to observe these birds unimpeded is reward enough for Mark Cocker. Like so many naturalists, Cocker was introduced to the landscape around him during long walks as a child with his father, and the human aspect to his love of nature serves to ...
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