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- A legendary voice shows communication is power - Lafayette Journal and Courier
Being able to communicate, according to actor James Earl Jones, is a lot more than merely being able to speak, read or write. While those things make communication possible, Jones told an audience at Purdue University Thursday night that ...
- Auburn Public Library Adds Books to Shelves - RedOrbit
Auburn Public Library Adds Books to ShelvesRedOrbit, TX - 38 minutes agoWhich is why Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American to become a published poet, had to prove she wrote a whole book of them. ...
- The true meaning of Oktoberfest - La Crosse Tribune
Oktoberfest first began in Munich, Germany, almost two centuries ago, as a celebration of blessed gratitude for the bounty received and the promise of joyous love to be shared. About 150 years later, the city of La Crosse inaugurated its own ...
- Celtic Nation ready to rock (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
When the Pittsburgh Irish Festival opens Friday afternoon, the music of eastern Canada will give a different lilt to the familiar brogue.
- 1-25 of 128 results - Seattle Weekly
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- Calendar: Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
BENEFITS WYES' "A Season of Good Tastes" The series of wine tasting and coffee pairing dinners benefiting the public television station continues at Nuvolari's, 246 Gerard St., Mandeville, at 7. All dinners begin at 7 and are $85 per person,...
- A twisting career path - Delaware Online
WASHINGTON -- More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets. Ryan's appointment as the nation's new ...
- Good Reads - Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Good ReadsWilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA - 50 minutes agoWednesday at 7 pm Free and open to the public. 389-5134. Book Discussion of “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett. Held in conjunction with the “Tools in ...
- Week of varied, fun music - Nevada Appeal
There certainly was music in the air around Carson City last week. It started Tuesday night when the Mile High Jazz Band was joined by local poets at the outdoor patio of Comma Coffee. The band was swinging as usual (right word for big band music ...
- How Burns lit the way for Lincoln - Scotland on Sunday Online
HE IS Scotland's national bard, whose timeless verse is venerated around the globe. But now it has been claimed that the stirring words of Robert Burns exerted such influence that they played a key role in helping Abraham Lincoln win the American ...
- Lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 - Forbes
Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights ...
- 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 ...
- Interview with Naomi Shihab Nye - Foreign Policy In Focus
Interview with Naomi Shihab NyeForeign Policy In Focus - 47 minutes agoI hope people read his poems together even twice as much as usual and find more ways life on the ground could live up to hopes in the poems. I think poetry ...
- Drowning death is second for family (Columbia Missourian)
COLUMBIA - Samantha Dillon is living through a mother's worst nightmare - for the second time. Her 18-year-old son, Jared Healea, drowned Thursday in Stephens Lake. "I've done this before," she said Friday at her home on Jefferson Street where family had gathered. Eleven years ago, she lost her 4-year-old son, Stephen, when he and his cousin Fred Gordon fell in Bear Creek and drowned ...
- New George Washington club teaches students about America’s History - Brandeis Hoot
New George Washington club teaches students about America’s HistoryBrandeis Hoot, MA - 33 minutes ago... of prose,” Gold said. Open mic nights, featuring New England based poets as well as the original poetry of members, are a high priority for the club. ...
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