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- Trivia contest highlights city knowledge (Portage Daily Register)
Susan Gorsuch of Pardeeville spent the past week researching the history of Portage in anticipation of Thursday's Portage Trivia Contest. Unfortunately for Gorsuch, no one showed up to participate.
- Keeping Brunei's Traditional Literature Alive (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan- The finals of the 11th national-level traditional poetry recital competition or the Syair, for secondary schools, colleges and private education institutions in conjunction with Teacher's Day was held yesterday at the Dewan Serrnayuda of the Language and Literature Bureau in Berakas.
- Sweet memories of San Miguel (Ventura County Star)
Betsy Lester Roberti saw ghosts of love and a lost life on a recent afternoon at San Miguel Island. Both had been snatched away — suddenly, darkly — long ago. She held the ruins of her old home in her hands on this sunny midsummer's day. Ghosts, good and bad, have a way of hanging around like a permanent curtain, like the eternal sea. They come back whenever she returns to San Miguel. ...
- Culli: Auction days nearing their end - Register-News
As summer winds down, one of the things I’m going to miss is being able to hit auctions on weekends. O.K., I admit it. I feel a rush whenever I get a good buy on something and it doesn’t matter where. I don’t think I’ve paid full price on a ...
- Not poetry, but not bad (Pahrump Valley Times)
Let's say someone wronged you. They cut you off in traffic. Stole from you. Backed into your car and didn't leave a note. Hacked into your computer and left a virus.
- ARUNDEL FESTIVAL: Plenty to see and do - Shoreham Today
ARUNDEL FESTIVAL: Plenty to see and doShoreham Today, UK - Aug 11, 2008Goings On is a four-day arts festival, incorporating drama, poetry and literature, from August 27 to 30. There is the opportunity for visitors to read their ...
- SparkCon festival planned this weekend - WRAL
The SparkCon festival, a local talent showcase and series of workshops, is being held in downtown Raleigh this weekend. Street painters, graffiti artists, yoga instructors, filmmakers, musicians, tattoo artists and others will hold demonstrations of ...
- Radovan Karadzic: Bosnia's butcher poet - The Australian
I STILL wonder what happened to those hollow-eyed men I met in the autumn of 1992, as the freezing mist closed in on their prison camp in the mountains of northern Bosnia. They were lying in long miserable rows, huddled beneath skinny blankets. The ...
- Republican Veepstakes Line: The Final Cut (Washington Post)
DENVER -- With John McCain expected to reveal his vice presidential pick in the next 24 hours, The Fix decided to take one last crack at our rankings of the men (and woman) most likely to receive that phone call...
- Authors announced for this semester's Visiting Writers Series at UCM - digitalBURG.com
Authors announced for this semester's Visiting Writers Series at UCMdigitalBURG.com, MO - 55 minutes agoAn editor at both "Publishers Weekly" and "Pleiades," his poetry has been published in "The Yale Review," "The Paris Review," "Verse," and other journals. ...
- A fool’s reflection - Fool's Mountain
A fool’s reflectionFool's Mountain, San Francisco - 1 hour agoFast forward to May, 1989, a pair of lines of poetry (duilian, Chinese antithetical couplet) was pasted on the sides of entrance of our college dormitory ...
- Halloween calendar - South Coast Today
Halloween calendarSouth Coast Today, MA - 38 minutes agoPoetry & fiction workshops: And private lessons, offered by professional poet and writer Connie Ouellette in South Dartmouth. All ages and skill levels ...
- 'My Cloak and Dagger' author Roger Hall dies (The Monterey County Herald)
Roger Hall, 89, who wrote "You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger," a wry memoir about World War II spycraft that became a cult classic in intelligence circles and appealed to a wide audience for its irreverence, died Sunday at his home in Wilmington, Del. He had congestive heart failure.
- Book Review: Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer - Blogcritics.org
See also: » Book Review: Simple Knits for Little Cherubs by Erika Knight » Book Review: The Likeness by Tana French » Book Review: Up Pops The Devil by Angela Benson Georgette Heyer was a midcentury novelist, English by birth, fiercely private by ...
- America Back on Track... for Friday, August 15th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Carl Jung who said, "The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid." Some observations on the news... I know people suffering with dementia whose memory works better than does ...
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