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- A Life in the Day: Pearl Lam - Times Online
A Life in the Day: Pearl LamTimes Online, UK - 3 hours agoAnd if you look at old Chinese paintings, it’s not just about painting; it’s also about calligraphy, poetry and storytelling. ...
- 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."
- Venus Williams had it figured out all along - Times Online
I have always assumed that Richard Williams named his daughter Venus after the planet she calls home. Certainly, no one at Wimbledon has a greater reputation for space cadetship, daftness, flakiness, a silly voice and a general air of being slightly ...
- Our view: Famous 1884 speech offers a memorial to war dead (Public Opinion)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He delivered a famous Memorial Day address -- entitled "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire" -- on May 30, 1884, at Keene, N.H., before John Sedgwick Post 4, Grand Army of the Republic.
- Couples opt for humanist weddings as appeal of the church wanes - Scotsman
MORE and more couples are choosing humanist weddings over religious ceremonies because they have little connection with a church, a celebrant said last night. Figures released yesterday show humanist weddings are on the increase while overall ...
- Rev. Phillips led St. Paul church for 28 years - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Deaths elsewhere Dr. Stephen Hornstein dies at 83 Werner Groebli was 'Frick' in beloved ice-skating duo Jim Hager, half of country comedians Hager Twins, dies at 66 Last known member of failed plot to kill Hitler dies at age 90 The Rev. Roy Phillips ...
- Love's labor’s lost in post-invasion Iraq - Middle East Online
Middle East OnlineLove's labor’s lost in post-invasion IraqMiddle East Online, UK - 3 hours ago"The country of the Arabian Nights and of wonderful poetry is no longer good for love," Maki al-Nazzal, political analyst and poet, told IPS. ...
- Muriel Spark - guardian.co.uk
Muriel Sparkguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours ago... Foreign Office intelligence during the second world war, and brought new life to the Poetry Review in a stormy two-year editorship from 1947 to 1949. ...
- Shadows in the rain (The Daily Triplicate)
In the summer of 1964, R. Joe King was a young ex-Marine who felt a desire to leave a directionless city life in San Francisco and go north to Del Norte County.
- 'Flowering' magical - Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald'Flowering' magicalChicago Daily Herald, IL - 1 hour agoCo-written by American composer John Adams and co-librettist Peter Sellars in 2006, "A Flowering Tree" is based on a South-Indian folk tale and other poetry ...
- A pure thrush word (Guardian Unlimited)
The shell blast that stopped Edward Thomas's heart on the battlefield at Arras stopped his pocket watch, too, at 24 minutes to eight on the morning of Easter Monday, 1917. That frozen timepiece is an appropriate image for a poet whose best work seems to still time, to suspend a moment of clear-sighted observation.
- Venus flytraps for Lord Whimsy - National Post
Venus flytraps for Lord WhimsyNational Post, Canada - 4 hours agoIt's a strange little book, billed as "a bounteous selection of essays, philosophical diagrams, poetry and other Arcadian follies concerning the art of ...
- Language of hope - Ottawa Citizen
Language of hopeOttawa Citizen, Canada - 2 hours agoA Polish woman, meanwhile, made it sound like poetry. The week-long Esperanto Congress of the Americas that ended yesterday was much smaller than the annual ...
- New books at the Latah County LIbrary - Latah Eagle
New books at the Latah County LIbraryLatah Eagle, ID - 3 hours agoI've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness and Nature by Lucia Perillo. Stricken with MS, poet and naturalist Perillo tells of her ...
- Literary artists spread the word - BBC News
BBC NewsLiterary artists spread the wordBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoLike much spoken word, his performances combine poetry, theatre and live graphics. Other performers work with a musical accompaniment, but all artists ...
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