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- Daily TWiP - Alfred, Lord Tennyson 200th birth anniversary - Nashua Telegraph
Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview. Today we celebrate the 200th birth anniversary of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of the United Kingdom and ...
- A talk with Orit Bashkin - Boston Globe
A talk with Orit BashkinBoston Globe, United States - 24 minutes agoThere were Shi'ites in Najaf saying, "we have contributed to Arab culture, look at our fantastic poetry, look at the contributions of the cities of Najaf ...
- Hail, hail, rock'n'roll - guardian.co.uk
Hail, hail, rock'n'rollguardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 31, 2008Subtitled The Poetry of Silence, it shows some 60 paintings from across the Danish artist's career, and opens with a quotation from Rainer Maria Rilke. ...
- Cliches are a trusty friend - Guardian Blogs
Cliche gets a poor press (bad rap, lousy rep ...) but all good writing depends on this trusty friend, as I was driven to recognise recently while reading a Penguin Classics anthology of Dante in English. This is a collection of translations from ...
- Highway Crews Look for Savings in Joint Efforts (East Aurora Advertiser)
Highway crews from Erie County, the Town of Colden and the Town of Wales lent a hand to the Aurora Highway Department last week to make improvements on Longmeadow Drive and Pomander Square in the northeast portion of Aurora. The effort wasn't charity, but part of a work- and equipment-swapping system between municipalities. The point of the system is to help each municipality control costs while ...
- By: Vanessa Moss | Posted: on August 02, 2008 (Woolwich Observer)
After 30 years of commitment to the Masonic Knights Templar (MKT), Elmira’s Bruce Miller is being honoured for his past service … with more to come.
- WALT WHITMAN (DVD) - Film Threat
WALT WHITMAN (DVD)Film Threat, CA - 3 hours agoWhile the film offers rich slices of Whitman’s poetry, it curiously fails to include what may have been his most famous work, “O Captain! My Captain! ...
- Life-long bonds emerge from Minneapolis bridge tragedy - Argus Leader
MINNEAPOLIS - A year ago, Jennifer Holmes and Betsy Sathers were strangers. Now they golf together every Tuesday. Ron Engebretsen knew neither woman a year ago, but now he often calls one of them when he can’t sleep. On Aug. 1, 2007, they all lost ...
- Christina Patterson: The more sex we get, the more we want - Independent
Christina Patterson: The more sex we get, the more we wantIndependent, UK - 46 minutes agoThat, of course, was an ice-age ago, when the market value of a private life was more on a par with poetry and less on a par with a Damien Hirst. ...
- News & Star (The News and Star)
MAGNIFICENT MURPHY! SHREWSBURY is known as “the gateway to Wales”, but there was no danger of Carlisle United being bundled down a valley as long as Peter Murphy was around to thwart numerous assaults on Cumbrian pride.
- The many peaks of mountains in literature - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe many peaks of mountains in literatureguardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours agoBut I'm personally more interested in books inspired by (rather than about hanging off) mountains, whether it is the poetry of Chinese masters like Li Bai ...
- A Couple Of Syllables - Outlook India
K apil Sibal is no poet. By his own admission, the Union minister for science and technology is a man of the world who dislikes poetry. It's too "difficult" and "subjective" for his reading taste. Nor does he have any patience with the "paper ...
- On the bookcase - Baytown Sun
While sorting out books to donate to a library for its annual sale, I was struck by the number of “locals.” Books written by or about people in Baytown and the local area consume a considerable amount of space in my bookcase. Sorry, library fund ...
- Entertainment Calendar: 06/13/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Items for this calendar must be received by the Record-Eagle at least two weeks in advance. All calendars are published on a space available basis. Information may be mailed to Entertainment Calendar, Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685-0632; faxed to 946-8632; or e-mail sbeach@record-eagle.com
- Edinburgh festival: Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective - guardian.co.uk
Edinburgh festival: Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collectiveguardian.co.uk, UK - Aug 8, 2008The last thing you expect to come next, probably will - even if that means something not remotely funny at all. Teeuwen is making his solo Edinburgh debut, ...
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