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- Great speakers: Why their words resonate (Denver Post via Yahoo! News)
Four years ago, Barack Obama jumped into the spotlight with a single speech, "The Audacity of Hope," which triggered national buzz when he delivered it at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - FOX News
On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust. (Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp some ...
- Anthony J. Russo, 71, Pentagon Papers Figure, Dies (New York Times)
Mr. Russo was a shaggy-haired, unemployed policy wonk when he teamed up with the buttoned-down Daniel Ellsberg to leak the top-secret government history of the Vietnam War called the Pentagon Papers.
- Art and technology meet on the street at IngenuityFest - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Courtesy of IngenuityFest Jenny Marketou's "Red Eyed Skywalkers." Downtown Cleveland becomes briefly more dramatic, slightly electronic and, dare we say, a teensy bit exploratory this weekend as IngenuityFest overtakes the streets, alleys and ...
- Back to our roots - PSU Collegio (subscription)
Back to our rootsPSU Collegio (subscription), KS - 4 hours ago"It's a combination of narrative poetry and song that centers on the miners' struggle to get fair wages and rights." In between the different acts, ...
- Blog Writing: Using Words - Connected Internet
Blog Writing: Using WordsConnected Internet, UK - 4 hours agoBlog writing isn’t poetry or literary fiction. That doesn’t mean it has to be impersonal and sterile. Give your readers something of yourself and engage ...
- Jamaica's Bolt doubes with 200 win, world record - Colorado Springs Gazette
Jamaica's Bolt doubes with 200 win, world recordColorado Springs Gazette, CO - 14 hours agoHe's poetry in motion. He's not a beast." Not that it mattered to Bolt or his record, but there was quite a bit of confusion with the silver and bronze ...
- NRI poetess Sujata Bhatt short-listed for Poetry Prize (Outlook India)
Popular NRI poetess Sujata Bhatt and five others were today short-listed for Britain's most valuable poetry prize. The 52-year-old Ahmedabad born writer has been chosen for the 10,000-pound Forward Prize for her collection 'Pure Lizard'.
- Librarians promote reading in summer - KATC
Librarians promote reading in summerKATC, LA - 1 hour agoTerry had pulled a poetry book off the shelf. Jailyn Simmons, 7, was reading "It's Halloween, Dear Dragon" out loud. Seven-year-old Deandre Jacobs leaned ...
- Ruth K. MacDonald (Portsmouth Herald)
PORTSMOUTH and#8212; Ruth K. MacDonald, 89, of Portsmouth died Wednesday, July 16, 2008, at Portsmouth Hospital surrounded her family.
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections ...
- Review: Chaim Potok's play The Chosen at Stageworks - Creative Loafing Tampa
Review: Chaim Potok's play The Chosen at StageworksCreative Loafing Tampa, FL - 1 hour agoSet in Brooklyn, the play explores the evolving friendship between two boys: Reuven Malter, a forward-thinking, outgoing orthodox Jew, and Danny Saunders, ...
- Religious retreats: Head to the Catskills - Yahoo News
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. - At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
- Netlets for Saturday, Aug. 30 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
I dont know, about this pick. I have my reservations. What about the Scandal that Palin is in. See her full background info, Pictures, and … read more the Scandal at http://www.theveep.com Even though he was passed over as John McCain's running ...
- September 2008 - ABC News Blogs
When you get home after a long hard day at work you might be tempted to leave the cleaning until tomorrow. You might decide you are too tired to cook and order takeout. If you did this every day, your home might look something like this…. Chris ...
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