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- Merlene Davis (Lexington Herald-Leader)
On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the first of two executive orders known as the Emancipation Proclamation. It was a warning to the states that had seceded that in 100 days, he would free the slaves within their borders if they did not rejoin the union. It wasn't exactly the definitive loosening of chains that abolitionists and the slaves themselves would have ...
- 'Did I actually write a soliloquy for a hamster?' - Guardian Unlimited
'Lately,' said John Updike, 'I've been feeling not so much a wish to die as a wish that being alive didn't generate so many demands.' Sitting across from Updike in a Boston hotel suite with my notebook open, I was the demand, and I have to say that ...
- Top Ten List: Nov. 6-13 - Marblehead Reporter
Top Ten List: Nov. 6-13Marblehead Reporter, MA - 7 hours agoTickets are available by phone at 781-631-8987 or online at www.meandthee.org. Tickets are also available in Marblehead at both the Spirit of ‘76 Bookstore ...
- Franklin kids honor veterans with song, poetry - Oneonta Daily Star
Franklin kids honor veterans with song, poetryOneonta Daily Star, NY - 2 hours agoBy Jake Palmateer That is what the first-grade class at Franklin Central School said in unison Monday during the school's annual Veterans Day ceremony. ...
- Quotes of the day - 2 October 2008 - Independent
Quotes of the day - 2 October 2008Independent, UK - 5 hours ago"No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it. ...
- Cataloguing the Oppression (Gay City News)
Louis-Georges Tin has produced a dictionary of homophobia in the tradition of Enlightenment thinkers Voltaire and Diderot.
- DJ AM released from burn hospital after jet crash - MLive.com
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Celebrity disc jockey DJ AM has been released from a Georgia hospital after suffering severe burns in a fiery plane crash a week ago, a spokeswoman for the musician said Friday. "While he is deeply saddened by the events he is ...
- Loveless records Stevie Nicks song for Imus album - Forbes
Patty Loveless has found inspiration from a queen of classic rock: Stevie Nicks. The 51-year-old country singer recorded Nicks' Fleetwood Mac song "Silver Springs" for a new CD to raise money for the Imus Ranch, a working New Mexico cattle ranch ...
- iUniverse Would Like to Announce the Release of Looking for Jencey ... - PR.com (press release)
iUniverse Would Like to Announce the Release of Looking for Jencey ...PR.com (press release), NY - 4 hours ago... scripts, song lyrics, and articles, including a poetry collection Burnished Pebbles, Poems of Love, Death, and Life (also available through iUniverse). ...
- George Kneeland - Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
Idaho Mountain Express and GuideGeorge KneelandIdaho Mountain Express and Guide, ID - 3 hours agoIn addition to his love of art, poetry and business, George had a passion for golf. Even into his 80s, he was often on the course, playing 36 holes with the ...
- All-Male Romeo and Juliet Opens in DC Sept. 15 - Playbill.com
All-Male Romeo and Juliet Opens in DC Sept. 15Playbill.com, NY - 6 hours ago"Shakespeare was a writer of gorgeous poetry, but I believe that the love poetry in Romeo and Juliet is especially glorious in part because Shakespeare knew ...
- Christians challenged to tap inner poets - Chicago Sun-Times
Christians challenged to tap inner poetsChicago Sun-Times, United States - 16 minutes agoIn his 1819 essay, "In Defense of Poetry," Shelley elaborated on the notion of poet as legislator, saying, "Poets, or those who imagine and express this ...
- Is Obama Good For Business - WebitPR (press release)
Is Obama Good For BusinessWebitPR (press release), UK - 6 hours ago“To borrow a phrase suffused with poetry from US president-elect Barack Obama, if there’s any owner manager out there who still doubts that all things are ...
- Journal de bord de Cyraknow - Toute la Poésie
Journal de bord de CyraknowToute la Poésie, France - 10 hours agoThis time, the newly-added poet is my nine year old daughter Roussanne, known more widely as Roussy, whose poetry-writing started at age 5 and 3/4, ...
- No need to understand sports, just cheer - London Free Press
No need to understand sports, just cheerLondon Free Press, Canada - 3 hours agoSo I guess he won't be joining the poetry club, like I had hoped. Because I could have helped him with that, could have pulled out some dusty old books of ...
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