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- Political activist Buchanan dies at 62 - Statesman Journal
Political activist Buchanan dies at 62Statesman Journal, OR - 14 hours agoAs a small boy, he could recite poetry from memory. In high school, college and community-theater productions, he played leading roles in plays including ...
- INTERVIEW: PHILLIPE PETITE & JAMES MARSH (MAN ON WIRE) - Chud.com
Philippe Petit should be more annoying. Given to flights of poetry while answering the simplest questions and given to praising himself to the heavens, he seems like a self-involved little Frenchman. But after seeing his work, you suddenly get it. He ...
- Holocaust's lesson lives - Akron Beacon Journal
The need to be vigilant, to be constantly aware of the world around us, was the message that 17-year-old Sara Schnable said she was attempting to convey with her poem, A Legacy of Innocence, which was given the Best of the Best award during Akron's ...
- We're not running out of oil - The Gazette (Montreal)
We're not running out of oilThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 3 hours agoThe poetry was not lost on those who sat in Petrolia, Ont.'s Victoria Hall - an 1890s opera house built by the town's long-gone oil barons - as they ...
- Writing contest to celebrate city - Pembroke Daily Observer
Writing contest to celebrate cityPembroke Daily Observer, Canada - 43 minutes agoThere are two categories in the children's' poetry contest. Poets aged seven to 10 are invited to submit poems about "Why I love to live in Pembroke. ...
- Book learning - Wichita Falls Times Record News
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said, “I’ve seen the Promised Land,” in a speech on the eve of his assassination, he was referring to the Exodus story from the Bible. Abraham Lincoln drew his famous “House Divided Speech” from Luke 11:17 ...
- Nitzinger's event celebrates sobriety - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
That old rock 'n' roll cliche -- sex, drugs, booze -- has its dark side, and no one knows that better than Fort Worth guitar legend and ex- Bloodrock member John Nitzinger. The blues/rock legend has organized a "musical celebration of sobriety ...
- Online film fest puts focus on Boston natives - Boston Globe
Online film fest puts focus on Boston nativesBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour agoThe links for "The Countdown" point to the American Immigration Law Foundation, www.outreachworld.org, and an international directory of poetry slams. ...
- Review: Forbidden love is at heart of 'Pearl' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia. By Douglas Smith. Yale University Press. 284 pages. $35. A love story between the richest nobleman in Imperial Russia and a young serf with a spellbindi...
- Learning to speak Yorkshire - Yorkshire Post
Learning to speak YorkshireYorkshire Post, UK - 23 minutes agoI may enjoy slang, but I also adore poetry and have a passion for French songs. Just like the actors in Renoir's film On Connait la Chanson I burst into ...
- Snow in April and Rain in June? - Oregonian
Welcome to Portland where there's snow in April and stormy rains in June. I don't know if I'm up or down this year and it's not just the weather- it's the pregnancy too! Now in my 7th month, I am beginning to feel like a pack mule with all this baby ...
- The Hold Steady: The best classic rock band you never heard of ... - Fort Worth Star Telegram
The Hold Steady: The best classic rock band you never heard of ...Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 13 minutes agoBut then nearly all of Stay Positive is built on tough, unblinking poetry, focused on common folks — the gritty waltz of One For the Cutters is an epic of ...
- Coleman Barks to read Mowlavi poetry - Presstv
Renowned American writer and poet Coleman Barks is slated to read the poetry of Mowlavi at the Hill-Stead Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. Accompanied by the award winning cellist and composer Eugene Friesen, Barks will read the celebrated Persian poet ...
- St Alban’s in the full flower of life - this is hampshire.net
St Alban’s in the full flower of lifethis is hampshire.net, UK - 2 hours agoThe church is currently staging an exhibition by well known local artist Barry Davis called The Bible in Paint and Poetry, which runs until June 22. ...
- Open house slated for adult education - Skokie Review
Open house slated for adult educationSkokie Review, IL - 11 hours ago... subjects such as famous trials, American musical theater, women's literature and poetry, the evolution of language, documentary film and much more. ...
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