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- Academics unearth UK's oldest joke - New Kerala
They found it in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter Cathedral. It reads: "What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before?' Answer: A key." Going through ancient texts ...
- Owners of burned home rue their loss (Kingston Daily Freeman)
Purchase a copy of this photo."> A day after a fire apparently caused by a lightning strike damaged his Accord house, Jeffrey Davis has not "gone through the 'why me' phase yet" but is instead trying to look at the experience like it is a test.
- Bugs, ice cream mark end of summer - Greenwood Index Journal
Greenwood Index JournalBugs, ice cream mark end of summerGreenwood Index Journal, SC - 1 hour agoWe read World War I novels as well as WWI poetry, WWI art. We had a very nice mix of male and female, about 20 people each session,†Anne Norton, ...
- Spare our children poetry with a moral - Independent
Spare our children poetry with a moralIndependent, UK - 40 minutes agoBy Shirley Dent With two days to go until National Poetry Day, do you know what sort of poetry your kids are reading? Are they being led as 'lonely clouds' ...
- Infinite Jest' author, 46, an - CNN International
Infinite Jest' author, 46, anCNN International - 4 minutes agoHe declined to say what they had written about or offer any comment on the author's private life. Pietsch, publisher of Little, Brown and Company, ...
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 - BBC News
He spent the next eight years in the Soviet prison system, or Gulag, before being internally exiled to Kazakhstan, where he was successfully treated for stomach cancer. Publication in 1962 of the novella Denisovich, an account of a day in a Gulag ...
- Wofford students have Novel time with SC author - Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription)
Wofford students have Novel time with SC authorSpartanburg Herald Journal (subscription), SC - 40 minutes ago"It's such a wonderful idea to have the freshmen read a book and come together to talk about it. It's such a great unifying method to give them something ...
- Merrick Bay preserve named for murder victim Schiffman - Newsday
Merrick Bay preserve named for murder victim SchiffmanNewsday, NY - 1 hour agoMany attendees shed tears for Schiffman, whom they described as a funny, sensitive young woman whose poetry and writings acutely expressed her innermost ...
- Club notes - Cleveland Daily Banner
Club notesCleveland Daily Banner, TN - 55 minutes agoHe was also serenaded with the Happy Birthday song. The meeting was opened with Martha Bostic reading Kelly Strong's "Freedom is Not Free" poem. ...
- PA plans big funeral for poet Darwish - Gulf Times
RAMALLAH: Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank tomorrow — an honour only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes for Darwish poured in ...
- Eileen Myles - Lowell Sun
Born in Cambridge in 1949, Eileen Myles attended Catholic schools in Arlington and graduated from UMass Boston in 1971. In 1974, she moved to New York City to be a poet. There, she quickly gained the friendship of Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan and ...
- Don Henley: A pretty fly guy - Independent
Share Midway through the first CD of The Eagles' new double album, Long Road out of Eden, there's a fabulous Don Henley / Steuart Smith ballad called "Waiting in the Weeds". Like Henley's 1985 solo hit, "The Boys of Summer", it tackles themes of ...
- DCist Interview: April Hill (DCist)
It's safe to assume that when April Hill left the relative stability of her job at a Wall Street powerhouse firm to pursue her love of music, she couldn't have predicted that the country's financial sector would sink to shockingly low depths and her drastic career shift would seem like a smart move. But it has. Hill was recently selected by readers of the independent soul movement's ...
- A Poet’s Realm of Myth and Reality (New York Times)
The Duero River flows past the town of Soria in the heart of Spain, where the poet Antonio Machado lived.
- Reading matters - Metro
MetroReading mattersMetro, UK - 8 hours agoAnyone who thinks they have a knack for verse, rap or poetry should sign themselves up (the winner nabs a £250 prize) while spoken-word fans can expect a ...
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