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- PALMER'S ALMANAC: Memorial Day's roots in Civil War (The Tuscaloosa News)
Memorial Day is a day to reflect and remember the women and men who died while serving their country. The day has its roots in those early post-Civil War days when a traumatized America was coming to grips with the horrors of a war that left the Southern landscape ravaged and pimpled with thousands of fresh graves.
- Legal Weed, free cupcakes and "High School Musical" -- it's last ... - Los Angeles Times
Legal Weed, free cupcakes and "High School Musical" -- it's last ...Los Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours agoThrillest Claremont’s 90-year-old Wolfe’s Market changes with the times. Claremont Insider More poetry where you least expect it. SGV Tribune Photo: AP.
- Pop go the exam papers as Amy Winehouse muscles in - Irish Independent
Pop go the exam papers as Amy Winehouse muscles inIrish Independent, Ireland - 2 hours agoBy Nancy Harris It's almost enough to bring you back to the days of the old Leaving Cert poetry question. Will it be Yeats? Will it be Kavanagh? ...
- TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Calif (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids)
LOS ANGELES -- Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and...
- Movie review: 'Fugitive' - hope after Holocaust - San Francisco Chronicle
Movie review: 'Fugitive' - hope after HolocaustSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 9 minutes agoPodeswa maintains an ethereal mood - when was the last time you heard poetry read in a voice-over? Although "Fugitive Pieces" aims to uplift, ...
- Over time, immigrants become fully American - Chicago Sun-Times
Underlying the debate over immigration in the United States is the old question of assimilation, or as some people call it today, immigrant integration. Are we a melting pot or a salad? A recent study by the Manhattan Institute measured immigrant ...
- Don't Miss: Dance, Prague, dance (Prague Daily Monitor)
Ekodoom, a dance show by Israel's Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. If last week's events list was filled with festivals, this week it is filled with dance performances, plus a variety of events, both in and out of Prague.
- Verdict: Lesbian not just from Lesbos - MSNBC
Greek-American Paul Thymou, resident of the Aegean island of Lesbos, holds a banner reading: "If you are not from Lesbos, you are not a Lesbian," outside of an Athens courthouse on on June 10. July 22: As Portuguese authorities close the case on the ...
- Teacher wrote love poems for teen, trial told - Windsor Star
High school teacher Mark Baggio gave one of his students love poems, and his cellphone records showed 2,345 calls between the two during two years of their alleged affair, Superior Court heard Wednesday. Baggio also made or received 437 calls ...
- What would YOU like to be tested on? - CBBC Newsround
CBBC NewsroundWhat would YOU like to be tested on?CBBC Newsround, UK - 3 minutes agoStudents at Cambridge University opened their poetry exam to find part of their test was a song by Amy Winehouse! So we wondered what fun things YOU would ...
- Changing world of commencement speakers (San Francisco Chronicle)
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of the next...
- A Deeper Black - Nation
To say that Barack Obama is our first serious black presidential candidate drastically understates the matter. When Obama greets his political allies, he does not give a simple, firm, businesslike handshake. Instead he offers the sort of dap--a ...
- Seaside, You Are Still Number One - Seattlest
SeattlestSeaside, You Are Still Number OneSeattlest, Seattle - 6 hours ago... yes... like the sweet sweet embrace of Death. 4. Lincoln City. Your mother is Slavic and effortlessly writes pages of melodramatic, existential poetry. ...
- Priceless gifts for Mother's Day - Dayton Daily News
Sunday, May 11, is Mother's Day, and if you're lucky enough to have a mother still living, you should be thinking about what would be meaningful to her. For many consecutive years I stood in the aisles at the nearby CVS or Walgreen's, welling up with ...
- Khayyam embodies philosophical, religious questions of Persian ... - Tehran Times
Khayyam embodies philosophical, religious questions of Persian ...Tehran Times, Iran - 1 hour agoKeyvani has translated a work on Khayyam by Mehdi Amin-Razavi entitled “The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam”. ...
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