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- Join Hands Day offers many opportunities for volunteers (The Shamokin News-Item)
This week is National Volunteer Week, and Saturday is Join Hands Day. I hope you found some way to help your neighbors. But if you didn’t, you can find ideas on our Web site. There you’ll find about 175 volunteer opportunities and several local events. Contact them directly if you’d like to help.
- ‘The History Boys’ is a smartly staged production at the Calderwood - Enterprise News
‘The History Boys’ is a smartly staged production at the CalderwoodEnterprise News, MA - 6 hours agoColonna is outrageous but never foolish as he imbues his students with the love of WH Auden’s poetry, as well as the music hall songs of Gracie Fields, ...
- Boston Children's Museum Presents Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China (Centre Daily Times)
Opening to the public on May 14, 2008, Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China is an exhibition designed to engage children and families in learning about one of the oldest civilizations - and now among the most modern - in the world through some of its young people. Created by Boston Children's Museum (BCM) and sponsored by State Street and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), ...
- The conundrum of Slessor's sixth bell - Examiner
The conundrum of Slessor's sixth bellExaminer, Australia - Jun 4, 2008"Not only does it have working sketches, but all sorts of reflections on Slessor, poetry in general, practical issues about working on the mural, ...
- West Angela Street, Pleasanton - San Francisco Gate
A fox squirrel scampers across West Angela Street, a small street in downtown Pleasanton. Nearby, a couple walks hand in hand, gazing into the boutiques, art galleries and bakery housed in two-story, wooden buildings accented with towers and second ...
- Wergeland hailed on 200th birthday (Aftenposten)
Henrik Wergeland, viewed by many as one of the most important founding fathers of the modern Norwegian state, may be long gone but he's certainly not forgotten.
- Jade cup puts poetry into auction (Times Online)
Hong Kong An early Mughal shell-shaped carved white jade cup, inscribed in Chinese with a Qianlong imperial poem from the 18th century, is displayed during a Christie’s press preview in Hong Kong. The work of art will be sold at Christie’s Hong Kong spring auctions on May 27 and is expected to fetch more than HK$25 million (£1.65 million).
- Iran honors great poet Omar Khayyam - PRESS TV
PRESS TVIran honors great poet Omar KhayyamPRESS TV, Iran - 3 hours agoHe is best known for his poetry and his quatrains, dubbed “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, which was popularized among other nations through Edward Marlborough ...
- Game on! Residents turn yards into gaming destinations - Las Cruces Sun-News
Game on! Residents turn yards into gaming destinationsLas Cruces Sun-News, NM - 5 hours ago"Paul has a poetry group that meets here once a month, but I haven't heard a lot of poetry. Mostly, they're a bunch of guys who drink a lot of beer and ...
- 24th Annual Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair Announces Featured ... - Biloxi Sun Herald
The Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair -- the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest -- is expected to draw up to 100,000 book lovers again this year to the two-day showcase, set in Chicago's historic Printers Row neighborhood on June ...
- A (kirk) wall of sound - The Herald
A (kirk) wall of soundThe Herald, UK - 3 hours agoThere is real poetry in their playing; the care and attention given to the small details of the phrasing in the first movement of op18 no1, ...
- Voices of joy sing out - Los Angeles Loyolan (Subscription)
Voices of joy sing outLos Angeles Loyolan (Subscription), Los Angeles - 10 hours agoIt happens everywhere, especially during last week's Gospel Fest sponsored by the Black Student Union. Featuring poetry readings, solo performances and ...
- Diaries show Saddam feared getting AIDS in prison - The Associated Press
The Associated PressDiaries show Saddam feared getting AIDS in prisonThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoAl-Hayat also published excerpts from what it described as poetry written by Saddam in prison. In April 2004, the world had the first glimpses of Saddam's ...
- Date Lines: Conference for Eugene O'Neill (San Francisco Chronicle)
A conference cometh The global artistic impact of the seminal American playwright Eugene O'Neill is the subject of a five-day international conference taking place at his old homestead, Tao House, June 11-15. Conferees from throughout the United States and...
- Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranks - Times Online
Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranksTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoAnd when, in the same poem, he records how ‘the wheels lurched over sprawled dead’, he was the driver of the limber-carriage referred to, ...
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