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- Literary Happenings: 3 Vietnam War books geared to young people (Ventura County Star)
Although much has been written about the Vietnam War and its aftermath, few books have been geared toward children or young adults. Here are three excellent titles for young people: "Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam," "When Heaven Fell" and "Escape From Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy."
- June 20, 2008 (The Barnstable Patriot)
Perhaps the country’s most important friendship, as well as her greatest love story, involve the same unlikely individual – John Adams. Adams’s friendship with Thomas Jefferson was legendary. Adams was a lawyer/gentleman farmer from Braintree, struggling to make ends meet.
- The Boulevard of the Allies - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In all of the sunshine fun and seaspray of summer, the small celebration being conducted along the eastern spine of Pittsburgh today will attract scant attention. Highway rededications are small, fleeting events. There will be speeches that soon will ...
- Beijing Olympics spur mixed feelings - Hickory Daily Record
Beijing Olympics spur mixed feelingsHickory Daily Record, NC - 1 hour agoThey were educated with the political poetry and treatises of Chairman Mao. The younger generations, however, know there is a different world outside ...
- Kenya: 'We Have Had Enough of Foreign Plays' (AllAfrica.com)
For a very long time, plays that dominated Kenya's theatre scene were all foreign adaptations. Theatre powerhouses such as Mbalamwezi, Phoenix Players and Heartstrings Ensemble barely had a Kenyan production worth writing home about.
- Funny and sad tribute to lost wife is the Book of the Year (icWales)
A DIARY written by one of Wales’ leading poets, chronicling life after his wife’s death in a car crash, was last night named Wales Book of the Year 2008.
- West County this week - Contra Costa Times
West County this weekContra Costa Times, CA - Jun 20, 2008Poetry Discussion Group — 3 pm June 28. Poetry open mic. All ages welcome. El Sobrante Library, 4191 Appian Way. Free. 510-374-3991. n Pop Culture Jeopardy ...
- Fournier's swan song 'a dance of experience' - Globe and Mail
IN PERFORMANCE The National Ballet/Alberta Ballet mixed program runs at Toronto's Four Seasons Centre from tomorrow through June 22 (416-345-9595). National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Jennifer Fournier is retiring in a trail of rose petals, in ...
- A Satellite-Enabled Perspective - TPM
TPMA Satellite-Enabled PerspectiveTPM, NY - 1 hour agoOn the cricket field Hans hears the vernacular poetry of world English, a language that despite its history of colonial imposition/interruption, ...
- Oyster Bay Civic Association Keeps Members Well Informed - Oyster Bay Enterprise Pilot
Oyster Bay Civic Association Keeps Members Well InformedOyster Bay Enterprise Pilot, NY - 2 hours agoIt is reader-friendly with information about the WFC, and poetry, tide tables and children's activities," he said. It is available at the WFC located in the ...
- Southern sounds to sweeten the barbeque this weekend - Tryon Daily Bulletin
Unless you just arrived in town or have been hiding under a rock to keep cool you probably are aware that this is Blue Ridge BBQ Festival weekend. Community volunteers and master smokers and grillers will turn Harmon Field into a smooth running feast ...
- Brave Little Toaster - Animation Magazine
Brave Little ToasterAnimation Magazine - 19 hours agoIn 1999, he won the Nonfiction Hugo for The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of. His other works include volumes of poetry and theater and opera criticism for The ...
- Elderly poet is well-versed in humor (Leader-Telegram)
Norma Desprez doesn't hide her age. She embraces it. The 88-year-old Eau Claire grandmother writes about her golden years in the new poetry book "Silhouettes of Aging: An Octogenarian's Retort."
- Is Amy Poehler ‘Office’-Bound? - Nymag.com
Poehler Gets a Day Job?: And so the upfront rumors have come to pass; Amy Poehler is in negotiations to join Aziz Ansari in NBC's spinoff of The Office . Yes, we're excited for her new career move but way more excited by the prospect of Kristin Wiig ...
- Sufiyana Kalaam is my life: Samina - The Post
The PostSufiyana Kalaam is my life: SaminaThe Post, Pakistan - 1 hour agoLAHORE: I sang a lot of songs but now the part and parcel of my life is solely the Sufiyana Kalaam (Sufi poetry). Famous singer of Hyderabad Samina Gul ...
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