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- Mandela's 90th b'day celebrated (HT via Yahoo! India News)
Anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday was celebrated at Springdales, Dhaula Kuan, on Friday. The event, which concluded the school's Africa Week celebrations, began with a speech by Principal Jyoti Bose welcoming all the dignitaries, including Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma; South African High Commissioner to India ...
- Fort Bragg - Mendocino Calendar of Events (Mendocino Beacon)
- Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Ha'Shoah) commemoration, 7 p.m., Caspar shul, 15071 Caspar Road. - Advisory Council for the Area Agency on Aging meeting, 2 to 4 p.m., county Dept. of Social Services, Big Sur Conference Room, 747 S. State St., Ukiah. 467-5868 or 463-7775.
- English too hard for students, principal says - News.com.au
English 'beyond intellectual ability' of most students Students just want to read books - principal Curriculum 'should be what community wants' THE head of one of the nation's elite private schools has questioned whether English should be compulsory ...
- In short, a perfect day - Miami Herald
Father's Day is coming, and millions of children and/or wives are thinking: ''This year, I think I'll get Dad a nice casual shirt.'' Fine. Go ahead. Although you might want to ask yourself a couple of questions first, such as: Does Dad WANT another ...
- This week a calendar for the bibliophile - New Orleans Times-Picayune Blogs
Features include readings from the book by John Biguenet, Chris Champagne, Greg Herren and James Nolan, as well as a trivia contest, dramatic interpretations, and specialty drinks.
- Send your books to sell, to this bookstore - Listen & Be Heard
Send your books to sell, to this bookstoreListen & Be Heard, CA - 5 hours agoThe Lost Bookshelf is a bookstore where authors can sell their poetry, fiction, plays, memoir, and non-fictionon consignment. The bookstore takes 30% of ...
- Bangladesh mourns death of poet Samudra Gupta (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
Dhaka, July 20 (IANS) Noted Bangladeshi poet Samudra Gupta, a freedom fighter who wrote against religious extremism in his poems, short stories and novels, died in a Bangalore hospital in India Saturday.
- Hundreds mourn 'beautiful angel' - Canada.com
Hundreds mourn 'beautiful angel'Canada.com, Canada - Apr 27, 2008Her mother, Deborah Chevalier read some of her daughter's poetry during the one-hour service, including a poem written three months before the teen ...
- Country and Western Round-up Days scheduled (Ventura County Star)
A meaty decision that United Methodist Church of Thousand Oaks made almost a year ago has steered it to a new event that will feature its renowned deep-pit barbecue.
- Music Review: The Old 97's - Blame It On Gravity (Blogcritics.org)
Love and romance with a country twang, the Old 97's return with a fiery new album. "Cowboy poetry" is one of those phrases you sometimes hear and don't know quite what to make of it. Odes to sagebrush and saddle sores, perhaps? But the music of the Old 97's, with its high lonesome sound, always felt like a kind of cowboy poetry to me. The Dallas-spawned band draws on country music to create ...
- Secondhand Wonderland: The World of the Used Book - PopMatters
Secondhand Wonderland: The World of the Used BookPopMatters, IL - 1 hour agoThe Book Barn was at the ass-end of Main Street in Joplin, Missouri, a street name that would be ironic if weren’t so sad. Everything along that stretch of ...
- Arts listings - Austin 360 (subscription)
Arts listingsAustin 360 (subscription), TX - Apr 9, 2008'The Austin International Poetry Festival.'The world's largest non-juried poetry festival with venues all over town and a choice of poets and slams. ...
- Carlisle Floyd tries to make his opera 'Susannah' accessible - Los Angeles Times
With more than 230 productions and 700 performances in the U.S. and Europe, Carlisle Floyd's "Susannah" is one of the most popular American operas, second perhaps only to "Porgy and Bess." Critics, however, have run hot and cold about it. After its ...
- Juan Luis Guerra, now in a book - Dominican Today
Juan Luis Guerra, now in a bookDominican Today, Dominican Republic - 2 hours agoThe book "Juan Luis Guerra and 4-40: Merengue and Bachata to the rhythm of poetry and commitment" was introduced in a ceremony on Wednesday that brought ...
- Nepali folks in Baltimore mesmerised by Poetry Festival-2008 (Nepalnews. com)
Nepalis living in Baltimore city of United States of America got a much needed break from their usual monotony last Thursday as they attended a Nepali Poetry Festival -2008 where they were mesmerised by some fine Nepali verses.
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