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- Reno celebration marks belated end of slavery (Reno Gazette-Journal)
James Barnett, a Reno resident, visited Wingfield Park on Sunday to enjoy some music and good times.
- Politics of the bear pit - Guardian Unlimited
Politics of the bear pitGuardian Unlimited, UK - 15 hours agoShe didn't serve in government, and clearly eschewed writing books on poetry, as did Mary Wilson. After all, they didn't make much money. ...
- Motorcycle ride to benefit breast cancer research - TriVallyCentral
TORRINGTON - The Mary Ann Tedesco Memorial Scholarship Fund Charity Event is scheduled to take place Sunday, July 20, at RJB Contracting, 588 Winsted Road, to benefit The Mary Ann Tedesco Memorial Fund. Admittance is $20 for rider, $30 for a rider ...
- Our 50 favorite magazines - Chicago Tribune
Once again we've gathered around the magazine racks in our minds and pulled out our favorites. We are a mixed bag of folks, and the list reflects that, ranging from the inevitability of the New Yorker to the surprise of G-Fan, a magazine for Godzilla ...
- Woman celebrates 100th birthday (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
HUNTINGTON -- Wilda Dillon, the grandmother and great-grandmother of several Huntington area residents, will celebrate her 100th birthday on Saturday, July 19.
- Arts news (The State)
Composer John Fitz Rogers, pianist Phillip Bush and writer Julie Elliott, all of Columbia, have won fellowships from the S.C. Arts Commission. Rogers is a music professor at USC who has been commissioned to write works for musicians and groups around the nation. Bush performs internationally as a soloist and in chamber groups. He has performed with the Philip Glass and Steve Reich ensembles on ...
- Saddam Feared US Would Give Him HIV - Sky.com
The Iraqi tyrant, who was hanged in 2006, kept a diary following his capture by US troops three years earlier. In extracts published by the London-based Arab daily Al Hayat, he reveals that he feared catching a sexually transmitted disease from his ...
- The Modern American West - Wall Street Journal
The Modern American WestWall Street Journal - 1 hour ago"A front is pulling the huge sky over me, and from the dark a hailstone has hit me in the head. I'm trailing a band of two thousand sheep across a stretch ...
- Arthur Lionberger at 105; Rochester's oldest citizen died July 4 - Boston Globe
Arthur Lionberger would recall in poetry how as a child in St. Louis he sat on the curb and watched President Theodore Roosevelt ride by in a parade. In a poem titled, "Footsteps" he wrote: "As a child I watched a marching band/But was too young to ...
- Romeo et Juliette at the Grand, Leeds - Times Online
Romeo et Juliette at the Grand, LeedsTimes Online, UK - 12 minutes agoAlthough Capalbo's robust tenor is incapable of fining itself down for the exquisite poetry of Gounod's writing, Bobro's girlish and wide-eyed soprano is a ...
- Tectonic OBamaChange and MCCain's Cleaning of the Coop:Poetry in ... - Savannah Morning News
“So much depends on the red wheel barrow…†wrote William Carlos Williams, suggesting the problems of not cleaning out the chicken poop from the coop if you are farming eggs—or chickens. Wallace Stevens wrote about chickens too, Chieftain ...
- Pupils' work stars at HighTide festival - Eastern Daily Press
School pupils from Halesworth will have their poetry turned into plays as a major arts festival gets under way in Suffolk tomorrow. The HighTide festival of new drama and film features talks from travel broadcaster and former Python Michael Palin and ...
- Weaver of words - Hindu
HinduWeaver of wordsHindu, India - 32 minutes agoHe narrated my own poems to me. He has that spontaneity. We did not plan to sit down and discuss every poem. He worked out on his own. ...
- RACE RELATIONS: Civil rights monument unveiled on Va. Capitol lawn (The Daily Times)
RICHMOND — For the first time Monday, statues of black children and civil rights leaders were placed alongside statues of some men who had worked to deny racial equality on the lawn of what was once the Confederate Capitol.
- A Public-Goods Plague - New York Times Blogs
The public-goods and free-rider problems that plague many organizations are also common at universities. At the University of Texas, the co-op bookstore offers each major college $50,000 if its professors meet the co-op’s deadline for book orders ...
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