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- Grandson treasures his grandmother's work - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Background: McRae, a retired public safety manager for Grady Hospital, has collected art his entire adult life, in part because many of the women in his family are artists. His largest and most significant collection consists of 26 pieces by his ...
- The Bible takes an Eastern influence - The Canberra Times
The Bible takes an Eastern influenceThe Canberra Times, Australia - 1 hour agoThe teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, Asia's first Nobel laureate, are also referred to in the commentary. ...
- 'Modern hermit' Kay Ryan the next U.S. poet laureate - Chicago Sun-Times
NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described ‘‘modern hermit,’’ will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical ...
- Stories that won't go away - Irish Times
Stories that won't go awayIrish Times, Ireland - 55 minutes agoHer trade unionist father, Jon, as he drove around Cork and Connemara, told stories of Ireland's struggles to become a Republic and recited the poetry of ...
- Bag a book - Mid Devon Star
Bag a bookMid Devon Star, UK - 4 hours ago... reading groups, and poetry and writing workshops. There's still time to enter a photograph of family or friends reading on the move into the Read, Ride, ...
- Writers share views on tolerance, creativity - Daily Yomiuri On-Line
What is the Turkish view of the Western world? Istanbul was once the capital of the East Roman Empire [under its former name of Constantinople] and I have the impression that Turkey was strongly influenced, both geographically and culturally, by the ...
- National Geographic Goes Chinese - Danwei
National Geographic Goes ChineseDanwei, Hong Kong - 3 hours agoIn a similar vain, he traces the preference for male heirs back to an old dictum from the Book of Poetry, which advised parents to let sons dress in silk ...
- Poetry Band 'Rooms' Redefines the Christian Spiritual - PR-USA.net (press release)
Poetry Band 'Rooms' Redefines the Christian SpiritualPR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - 1 hour agoPoetry Band is a kind of modern opera and musical theatre with Sherman writing, speaking, and singing the poetry to the accompaniment of the band. ...
- Q&A with Brian Turner (Otago Daily Times)
What Otago poet, essayist and angler Brian Turner is reading and why. What book(s) are you reading? Murray Bail's novel Eucalyptus and Robert Hass' poetry collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 .
- Carp diem! (Salon.com)
Fish pedicures come to America, leaving flesh-hungry carp full and your feet clean.
- Sharmagne Leland St. John last-minute Books By Bay replacement - The North Bay Nugget
Sharmagne Leland St. John last-minute Books By Bay replacementThe North Bay Nugget, Canada - 3 hours agoShe has published three poetry books: Unsung Songs, Silver Tears and Time, and Contingencies. She also co-authored a book on film production design, ...
- Witty Repartee (Metro Weekly)
The trick of improvisational theater is taking a few ideas and stitching them together on the fly before an audience. Success can be measured in laughs, which are Washington Improv Theater's stock-in-trade.
- Hadrian and the wall of silence - Daily Telegraph
Feeling that his life was ebbing away, the Emperor Hadrian composed a letter to his successor around AD137. It began: "The Emperor Caesar Augustus to his most esteemed Antoninus, greeting. Above all, I want you to know that I am being released from ...
- Times Gone By - Cherokee Daily Times
Sam Betts is beginning to believe that the goblins will get him if he doesn't watch out. Monday morning as recounted in the Times his house was destroyed by fire. That afternoon he moved into the Dr. R. L Cleaves tenement located a few rods west of ...
- Youths rally for peace...Students urge arts, education instead of ... - New Pittsburgh Courier
New Pittsburgh CourierYouths rally for peace...Students urge arts, education instead of ...New Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh - 8 hours agoAt the rally, children from ages eight to 18 gathered to watch their peers perform poetry, dancing and self-written raps. A pre-recorded song created by the ...
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