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- THIS WEEK IN MICHIGAN HISTORY - Detroit Free Press
Twenty-three-year-old Elizabeth Chandler organized Michigan's first antislavery society on Dec. 2, 1830. She was the first female American writer to use abolition as a main theme in her poetry, according to the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. Chandler ...
- Raconteur and recorder of America - The Canberra Times
Raconteur and recorder of AmericaThe Canberra Times, Australia - 12 minutes agoAt McLaren High School Terkel relished debates and poetry, along with Paine, Voltaire and Upton Sinclair and found a particular penchant for Roget's ...
- Australian author Goldberg dies - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Australian author Goldberg diesJewish Telegraphic Agency, NY - 6 minutes agoRosenberg wrote several books as well as poetry, in English and Yiddish, his mother tongue. He arrived in Australia in 1948 with his wife, Esther. ...
- Latest Articles - Lucianne.com
ELKO, Nev.— This small city in eastern Nevada has a lot of mining services. It has the Cowboy Poetry Gathering headquarters, aspens blooming in the nearby Ruby Mountains and Wednesday trivia night at the Stray Dog Pub & Café. (Question 18: What is ...
- I get distracted by the Internet when I try to write (Salon.com)
Every time I start to do my assignment, I find myself surfing the Web instead!
- Shortt Take: President-elect Obama - RTE.ie
Shortt Take: President-elect ObamaRTE.ie, Ireland - 16 hours agoThe Obama campaign has been woven with poetry but has also been grounded in the reality of brass tack politics. The application of shoe leather ...
- Bill Conlin: In heavyweight bouts, Birds 1-1 - Philadelphia Daily News
PLAYING THE Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers back-to-back is like fighting Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier 6 days apart. Having lost a narrow decision to the Cowboys' dancing, prancing Ali, Andy Reid prepared for the unbeaten Steelers' mauling ...
- Book by well-known author entertaining read - Miramichi Leader
Book by well-known author entertaining readMiramichi Leader, Canada - 2 hours agoI finished this story just as America elected its first African-American president. What better way to illustrate the changes in our society between then ...
- International Writers Festival Presents Insight on World Issues - The Epoch Times
International Writers Festival Presents Insight on World IssuesThe Epoch Times, NY - 14 minutes agoSheng, a member of PEN Canada and the Canadian correspondent for Radio Free Asia, published three works in Chinese: Unveiling the Yuan Hua Case, a poetry ...
- News Roundup - Wednesday, 12 November - STA - Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija
News Roundup - Wednesday, 12 NovemberSTA - Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija, Slovenia - 46 minutes agoLJUBLJANA - Newspaper publisher Delo's purchase of nearly 60% of rival newspaper publisher Vecer has come under fire from various circles in Slovenia, ...
- Literary Cats (The Norman Transcript)
Ailurophilia -- the love of cats -- appears to be a congenital condition of writers. Canadian writer Robertson Davies observes, "Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable,?wise?creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
- Hunting industry courting more females - Charleston Post Courier
Hunting industry courting more femalesCharleston Post Courier, SC - 2 hours agoBy some accounts, female hunters are different than their male counterparts. Unlike most male hunters, for instance, some share poetry with each other. ...
- New Book From Laura Chester Explores Culture Shock on the U.S./Mexican Border (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Life on the U.S./Mexican border presents a clash of cultures and expectations that is explored with insight and dark humor in Laura Chester's new collection of short stories, Rancho Weirdo .
- Rahman excels in Yuvvraaj - Rediff
RediffRahman excels in YuvvraajRediff, India - 2 hours agoAnd he does it, with spirit, beauty and Benny Dayal (of Pappu can't dance saala fame)'s striking vocals, through Gulzar's [Images] wistful poetry and ...
- Kidd tells how 'Bees' evolved (The Post and Courier)
It's early in the morning, but best-selling author of "The Secret Life of Bees," Sue Monk Kidd, has no trouble drawing 50 poetry students at Burke High School close to her heart. "I will not forget the time in 1964, when I was 16 and living in Georgia and Dr. Martin Luther King came marching through and was put in jail in Albany," recalled the Mount Pleasant resident.
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