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- The North Star: A Moving Target (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
One of my earliest memories of looking up at the night sky happened when I was about 6 or 7 years old. I was visiting an uncle of mine, and on an early fall evening at dusk he pointed almost directly over our heads at a brilliant, bluish-white star. "See that star, Joey? That's the North Star, the brightest star in the sky."
- Vermont poet dies (The Nashua Telegraph)
Hayden Carruth, an award-winning poet who wrote about the people and places of northern Vermont, has died. ...
- Little-visited Puglia, Italy, offers warmth, wine and gloriously fresh food (Miami Herald)
Travelers -- even Italians -- may tell you that the heel of the Italian boot is remote and unhospitable. They haven't been here. Those in-the-know might mention medieval towns spilling from rocky cliffs above Caribbean-blue seas and the mysterious eight-sided Castel del Monte, the cone-topped houses of Valle d'Istria and long stretches of olive groves sweeping across the hills. They will note ...
- Area 61 - Miami New Times
Every Thursday, in a hidden corner of Aventura, freaky fans of poetry venture to urban playground, Area 61. The converted warehouse is a decked-out venue and studio complete with couches, a stage, a small bar, surround sound, and A.C
- Bolt sets record in gold 200 win - AZCentral.com
BEIJING - Jamaica's Usain Bolt followed up his world record in the 100-meter with another in the 200 Wednesday at the Olympics on the night before his 22nd birthday. He ran hard through the finish line at the Bird's Nest to finish in 19.30 seconds ...
- Susie Ibarra (All About Jazz)
Percussionist Susie Ibarra is an artist whose compendium of work is defined by an exquisitely global essence. It includes a profound respect for indigenous people and their music, coupled with a cutting edge sense of the avant-garde.
- Radovan Karadzic took holidays in Croatia.. the country he made war on (Daily Record)
BOSNIAN Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic took regular holidays sunbathing among his bitter enemies in Croatia.
- Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov dies at 75 (Las Vegas Sun)
Mon, Sep 29, 2008 (9:57 a.m.) Poet and screenwriter Konstantin Pavlov, who became one of Bulgaria's most prominent intellectuals with his rare defiance of the country's communist regime, has died, a filmmakers union said. He was 75.
- Family of Missing Persons Try to Cope (Eyewitness News Memphis)
Dozens of Mid-South families are on pins and needles - wondering if a body found in Frayser is their missing loved one. Investigators say it's an African-American woman whose body was badly decomposed. The body was found near Frayser High School.
- Haiku Writers Know … - New York Times Blogs
Haiku Writers Know …New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Time and Again (Washington Post)
In the four decades he's lived in the farm town of Oxford, Iowa (population 705), Peter Feldstein, 66, has remained something of an outsider. If you weren't born there, you are eternally regarded as a newcomer by people who go back several generations. He was originally from New York, an artist, ...
- Tilting at Spanish History: 'A Manuscript of Ashes' by Antonio Muñoz ... - New York Sun
Five years ago, Antonio Muñoz Molina's novel "Sepharad" was published in English to rapturous reviews. Not since W.G. Sebald's "The Emigrants" had a new European writer so powerfully seized the imagination of American readers. "Sepharad" was, in ...
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, August 7th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Thursday, August 7thOpEdNews, PA - 1 hour agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- SFR'S ANNUAL WRITING CONTEST 2008 (Santa Fe Reporter)
It's time once again to try to get your short story, essay or poem published AND win a holiday bonus at the same time.
- Germany in Transit (Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling, Anton Kaes) (dannyreviews.com)
Nation and Migration 1955-2005
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