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- THIS WEEK - Fort Mill Times
• Blood drive, 2:30-7 p.m. Thursday, July 3, at St. John's UMC, 130 Tom Hall St., Fort Mill. • Tega Cay all day, Day's activities for July 4 include canoe jousting, boat parade, ski show and fire works. For more information and ...
- Diaries show Saddam feared getting AIDS in prison - Las Vegas Sun
Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings. The London-based Al-Hayat said the comments came in portions of Saddam's ...
- Top Class Theatre at The Court - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Top Class Theatre at The CourtScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - May 6, 2008Long-serving and eccentric teacher, Hector (Tim Bartlett), believes knowledge has its own intrinsic value; that by learning poetry, literature and even ...
- Fort McHenry guards Baltimore's 'Star-Spangled' history - St. Petersburg Times
A row of cannons remains in place at Fort McHenry nearly 194 years after Francis Scott Key saw the flag that inspired him to pen the words for The Star-Spangled Banner. The introductory film at Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine tells ...
- National Symphony Orchestra (Washington City Paper)
One way of looking at the programming of the National Symphony Orchestra ’s outdoor weekend concerts is that the orchestra is still hewing to the safest works of American composers, despite the imminent departure of its music director, Leonard Slatkin.
- Roger Federer has to show courage by changing his style (Times Online)
WHAT IS the mark of a true sporting legend? Is it somebody who climbs supremely to the top and then appreciates they are better than the rest and feels no need to try and reach new levels of brilliance?
- Event photos: BC Book Prizes gala - Quillblog
Event photos: BC Book Prizes galaQuillblog, Canada - 1 hour agoGeorge McWhirter, poetry nominee and poet laureate of Vancouver. Author and award presenter Dennis Foon with Meg Tilly, a finalist for her kids’ book ...
- Shaw to read at Yeats event - RTE.ie
RTE.ieShaw to read at Yeats eventRTE.ie, Ireland - 36 minutes agoOther events include a one-day immersion course for lovers of poetry on Thursday, 26 June and family activities including tours, trails and stories for ...
- Bu Da 2.5 Milyon Dolarlık Loca - Güncel Haber
Bu Da 2.5 Milyon Dolarlık LocaGüncel Haber, Turkey - 53 minutes ago6 April 1968: 13th Eurovision Song Contest. Katie Boyle introduced entries from 17 countries. Spain won with "La la la" performed by Massiel. ...
- Books in Brief // Spiritual (Baltimore Sun)
Summer often brings vacation days, trips to flee the routine and extra "me" time.
- Erdrich's magic again casts a spell over those seeking the mystical and the divine (Pioneer Press)
Louise Erdrich is a shaman. She communes with spirits from other times, channels their messages, reveals their mysteries and layers the present
- Indigenous voices and stories echo down the centuries - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldIndigenous voices and stories echo down the centuriesSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 11 minutes agoBut it was another 35 years before the second volume of Aboriginal literature appeared in We Are Going, a book of poetry by Kath Walker (who became Oodgeroo ...
- Modernity collides with Elizabethan sensibilities in 'Cardenio,' a ... - Boston Globe
CAMBRIDGE - A play written by a leading Shakespeare scholar and a noted playwright, and said to be inspired by a lost work of Shakespeare himself, is bound to attract a lot of excitement in academic and theatrical circles alike. And so it is with ...
- Jensen: Salman Rushdie promotes ‘Enchantress of Florence’ (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India’s Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away.
- Kate Summerscale wins the Samuel Johnson prize - Daily Telegraph Blogs
My brilliant former colleague Kate Summerscale has won the Samuel Johnson prize for her book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher . We are delighted for her. Hooray for Kate! It's customary when someone goes from being a well-kept secret, to a less well-kept ...
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