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- History's father - Globe and Mail
History's fatherGlobe and Mail, Canada - 5 hours agoHistory, like poetry, began with war. Around 440 BC, some three centuries after Homer, singing of the wrath of Achilles, composed The Iliad, a Greek by the ...
- Find your next career on the Internet - Lake County News Chronicle
Find your next career on the InternetLake County News Chronicle, MN - 5 hours agoThe other day I found an interesting one besides all the viagra and fat- burning pills and the religious poetry contest offers. ...
- America Back on Track... for Monday, June 23rd - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who said, "One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." Some observations on the news... We told you earlier about the McClatchy series last week on the detainees. In ...
- First Nations Composer Initiative round III grant recipients named - Indian Country Today
First Nations Composer Initiative round III grant recipients namedIndian Country Today, NY - 3 hours ago... with North American ethnomusicologists. * Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Okla., and is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation. Her seven books of poetry ...
- UNESCO Director-General Expresses Sorrow over Death of Darwish (Palestine News Agency)
JERUSALEM, August 12, 2008 (WAFA) - UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura expressed his sorrow over the death of renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who died on 9 August, at the Memorial Hermann Medical Centre in Houston, Texas, USA.
- Poetry in motion: over London by airship - guardian.co.uk
Poetry in motion: over London by airshipguardian.co.uk, UK - 7 hours agoThere are certainly much cheaper ways to see London, but few can be as serene as to glide over the capital 1000 feet above the ground at 30mph in an airship ...
- Pictures of the floating world - Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia Daily TribunePictures of the floating worldColumbia Daily Tribune, MO - 1 hour ago"Frank Lloyd Wright," the famous American architect, "owned more than 6000 prints," Mehrhoff said. "It changed his view of nature, and he changed ours. ...
- Mahmoud Darwish is gone, but his struggles are not yet laid to rest - Lebanon Daily Star
The death of Mahmoud Darwish marked the tragic loss of another legendary figure in the Palestinian national movement, and indeed in the cultural and intellectual life of the wider Arab world. Through his poetry and other writings, Darwish gave voice ...
- Letters: War crimes (Independent)
The media circus over the capture of Radovan Karadzic has little to do with any notion of "justice" for his victims. Rather it is a continuation of the simplistic myth, peddled by Western leaders and the media through the Nineties, that the disintegration of Yugoslavia was the result of ancient ethnic hatreds and that the Serbs were the chief aggressors in the break-up.
- McGuinty defends Ontario incentives for Young People F---ing - CBC.ca
CBC.caMcGuinty defends Ontario incentives for Young People F---ingCBC.ca, Canada - Jun 11, 2008"I just don't think we politicians should be getting into lending a shape to building designs, what poetry is acceptable and not, and what movies are ...
- India Across the World (Aspen Daily News)
India is a seductive enigma, leaving vivid, beautiful and tearful memories to those who cross her borders.
- Singing/songwriter Blu amped up for live gig - Pensacola News Journal
Singing/songwriter Blu amped up for live gigPensacola News Journal, FL - 10 hours agoBlu began playing guitar at the age of 12, though she said she began writing poetry long before that. Initially too shy to even play and sing in front of ...
- Frost home vandals given a dose of poetic justice - The Spokesman Review
Frost home vandals given a dose of poetic justiceThe Spokesman Review, WA - 14 hours ago... place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, ...
- UNISSA To Offer More Masters Of Arts Programmes - BruDirect
Bandar Seri Begawan - Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA) hopes to offer more Masters of Arts (MA) programmes in the near future. Qualified candidates will also have the opportunity to pursue their Doctorate (PhD) studies at the Islamic ...
- Slam some poetry (The Star)
EVER felt the urge to write an ode to chocolate cake? Or a sonnet about coffins? Perhaps you prefer limericks in which old ladies choke on apple crumble? At this month’s KL Poetry Slam, you get the chance to wax lyrical about life’s two certainties (forget taxes!): Death and Dessert.
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