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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for June 2008

A Brief History: The Smallest National Park, the Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial (hero of the American Revolutionary War)

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 8:33 PM | Add Comment

Oil is making millionaires in North Dakota, where some say "a millionaire a day is made" because of the Bakken shale formation, a rich deposit that the U.S. Geological Survey calls the largest continuous oil accumulation it has ever assessed

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 2:38 PM | Add Comment

Wishful thinking: photos from Alaska. Wish I was there now!

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 1:19 PM | Add Comment

British student gets credit for expletive on exam; question: "Describe the room you are sitting in." Answer, "f--k off." The examiner said he would have received higher marks if he had used punctuation

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 1:15 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Two goats are seen during the sunset in the north coast of the Spanish island of Menorca

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 2:54 AM | Add Comment

SAG leader Alan Rosenberg calls strike talk 'a distraction'

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 2:50 AM | Add Comment

Greenland denied humpback whaling permit

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 2:44 AM | Add Comment

Beautiful Ruslana Korshunova has perished in a fall from her New York balcony; it was ruled a suicide

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 1:54 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

French soldier shoots 17 civilians and fellow soldiers watching a hostage-taking exercise; investigation into why he fired his blanks, and reloaded with live ammo

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 1:50 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an endangered Fijian Crested Iguana perched on a statue of a distant reptilian cousin, a Komodo Dragon, at Sydney's Taronga Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 1:46 AM | Add Comment

Firefighters in stalemate against Calif. blazes

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2008 1:42 AM | Add Comment

Countess Elizabeth Báthory: icon of evil? Was she one of the greatest mass murderers of all time, killing virgins and bathing in their blood to stay young? Or the victim of rumor and propaganda to curtail her political power?

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2008 3:09 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Smoky skies threaten health in fiery California. Air pollution readings in the region are two to 10 times the federal standard for clean air, with some areas are experiencing the worst air quality on record

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2008 2:20 PM | Add Comment

Attorney Jeffrey Lovitky, after the loss of his beloved Sandra Welner (who was blind and dies in 2001), sued the Treasury Department on behalf of the American Council of the Blind to change currency so the blind can distinguish bills

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2008 2:15 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Smoke chokes the skyline of San Francisco

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2008 1:41 PM | Add Comment

Foreigners threaten Afghan snow leopards, buying the pelts of the endangered species "for sale on international military bases and at tourist bazaars in the capital"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2008 1:32 PM | Add Comment

Scholars make finds in Nazi archive: prison brothels and slave labor camps, including millions of forced laborers in Germany

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2008 1:24 PM | Add Comment

"Flabbergasted" NASA scientists say: Martian soil appears able to support life

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2008 4:42 PM | Add Comment

Painting left at Md. Goodwill auctions for $40,000; turned out to be work by French Impressionist Edouard Leon Cortes entitled 'Marche aux fleurs'

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2008 2:30 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press will be on a brief hiatus due to possible fire evacuations; we hope to have the next issue up by July 7th

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2008 5:00 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Switching languages can also switch personality: peoples' perceptions of themselves and others change

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2008 1:15 PM | Add Comment

What do you think? Should Pee Wee Martini have won the World's Ugliest Dog Contest?

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2008 1:08 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Many Americans wanting simpler, greener lives build small cottages like Dee Williams' 84-square foot home on wheels in Olympia, Washington

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2008 1:02 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Contemporary Art specialist at Christie's, Pilak Ordovas, views 'Balloon Flower' sculpture by U.S. artist Jeff Koons. It will be auctioned off at end of June

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2008 9:59 AM | Add Comment

3-year-old Madelyn Eaves used song lyrics to call 911 for her mother

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2008 9:55 AM | Add Comment

Supreme Court rejects death penalty for raping children, in a 5-4 vote

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2008 9:48 AM | Add Comment

Astronomers on Verge of Finding Earth's Twin

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2008 9:01 PM | Add Comment

Hundreds of fires sparked in California by rare lightning storm spawning 8,000 lightning strikes

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2008 8:55 PM | Add Comment

Forecast Earth: You don't still use a screen saver, do you? (the change will cut tons of CO2)

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2008 12:24 PM | Add Comment

USA Today: The mystery story of the Maya slowly reveals new twists

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2008 12:14 PM | Add Comment

Scholars set date for Odysseus' bloody homecoming from the Trojan War: April 16, 1178 B.C.E.

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2008 10:09 PM | Add Comment

NASA warming scientist James Hansen says: "This is the last chance" for drastic action to change global warming, or "We're toast if we don't get on a very different path"

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2008 10:05 PM | Add Comment

"Lost Amazon Tribe" a hoax; photographer José Carlos Meirelles wanted to "call attention to the dangers the logging industry may have on the group"

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2008 10:00 PM | Add Comment

Salmonella can ride water into tomatoes through the stem, after they have been picked and plunged into cold water

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2008 9:55 PM | Add Comment

The Wayuu Taya Foundation: Patricia Velasquez discusses a foundation she started to provide aid to the people of the Wayuu Peninsula, the second poorest area in Latin America. Videos in English and Spanish

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2008 8:33 AM | Add Comment

Concern for rare cheetah rises above festering nuclear row, as Iran and the West work together to save the animals. Shown: Kooshki, an Asiatic cheetah captured by a poacher as a cub and rescued, at home in the Pardisan Zoo in Tehran, Iran

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2008 7:39 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Mineola, Texas reels from horrific abuse in its midst; in a former day care center, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2008 7:34 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

First Obama attack book in the works, by the same publisher of the 2004 best-seller that took aim at John Kerry’s Vietnam service

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2008 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Pandas facing bamboo shortage in China's quake zone

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2008 11:32 PM | Add Comment

1st black La. Supreme Court justice, Revius Ortique Jr., dies at 84

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2008 11:28 PM | Add Comment

Oil minister: Saudi Arabia willing to increase crude output; Saudis blame speculators and weak dollar for skyrocketing prices, as opposed to supply of oil

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2008 11:23 PM | Add Comment

Comedian George Carlin dies of heart failure in Los Angeles at 71

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2008 9:25 PM | Add Comment

Why people should not do drugs: Amy Winehouse's father reports that at the age of 24, she has "damaged her lungs by smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes" and has early stage emphysema

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2008 9:16 PM | Add Comment

Thursday is the 60th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Airlift: Germans look back — and forward

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2008 11:09 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a woman examines lemons before buying at a street-side vegetable market in Mumbai, India. Inflation shot above 11 percent in early June to a 13-year high due to rise in fuel prices

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2008 11:03 AM | Add Comment

High fuel prices put brakes on indie band tours

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2008 10:59 AM | Add Comment

GOP frets Bob Barr, running on the Libertarian Party ticket, could play spoiler in presidential race: "Bob could be the Ralph Nader of 2008"

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2008 10:55 AM | Add Comment

NYC getting 'Waterfalls' off shore of Manhattan, designed by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2008 10:31 PM | Add Comment

Tiny Shetland island of Forvik (and its one resident, Stuart Hill) declares independence from the United Kingdom

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2008 10:24 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Photo: Rollie, an Emperor Tamarin monkey, at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2008 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Hunted, rammed, poisoned, whales may die from heartbreak too

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2008 10:17 PM | Add Comment

Photos of Indeever, a young Snow Leopard cub, and mother Dshamilja, at the Zurich Zoo in Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2008 2:44 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Study: Moving virus research could be costly; an outbreak of one of the most contagious animal diseases from any of five locations the White House is considering for a new high-security research laboratory could be "devastating"

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2008 2:37 PM | Add Comment

Woman sues Victoria's Secret claiming thong injury

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2008 2:35 PM | Add Comment

Ohio school board votes to fire teacher who branded a cross on the arm of a student while preaching Christian beliefs

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2008 2:30 PM | Add Comment

Today is World Refugee Day. Here are photos, many of them children, an article, and link to a video with Angelina Jolie

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2008 12:03 PM | Add Comment

Reports: Teen girls made pact to get pregnant in Gloucester, Mass.

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2008 11:59 AM | Add Comment

Austria accused of shielding Nazi war criminal suspect: Milivoj Asner is ranked No. 4 on a leading list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2008 11:55 AM | Add Comment

Photo: 18-year-old polar bear Inuka. The Singapore Zoo has reversed the decision to relocate him to a more temperate country

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2008 8:54 PM | Add Comment

Photos: A selection of hats from Ladies Day at Ascot racecourse in England (including Dame Helen Mirren)

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2008 8:45 PM | Add Comment

Scientific study shows: legendary Australian racehorse Phar Lap died of arsenic poisoning (April 1932)

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2008 8:36 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Tai and Pip, twin red pandas, sleep soundly at the Edmonton Valley Zoo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2008 8:31 PM | Add Comment

Obama bypasses public money — 1st since Watergate

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2008 8:27 PM | Add Comment

Midwest flood victims feel misled by feds: told "The levees are good. You can go ahead and build," many homeowners felt so secure they dropped their flood insurance

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2008 1:49 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Oil drops as China says it will raise fuel prices

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2008 1:42 PM | Add Comment

Hawaiian group demands restoration of the monarchy

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2008 1:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Moon Jellies, colored by lights at the New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 9:49 PM | Add Comment

Sweden adopts law allowing official eavesdropping on all email and telephone traffic. The European Federation of Journalists argues that electronic monitoring contravenes international and European legal standards; protestors hand out Orwell's "1984"

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 9:41 PM | Add Comment

Tim Russert's son sounds a theme of unity in U.S. politics at funeral, arranging for Obama and McCain to sit together and asking them to "disavow the low tactics that distract Americans" from important issues facing our country

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 9:33 PM | Add Comment

Painting thought to be a knockoff, 'Rembrandt Laughing,' is a self-portrait by the Dutch master worth $30 to $40 million

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 9:28 PM | Add Comment

Update from earlier entry: Pigs who swam through Iowa floodwaters shot and killed on levee

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 3:11 PM | View Comments (23) | Add Comment

Our main site, Luciole Press, has a lot of talented contributors... including the best advice column around... by feline wonder, Baby the Greatest

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 1:43 PM | Add Comment

Woman rescued in China quake gives birth; during 50 hours she was trapped in rubble, she prayed not for her life but for her child's

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 11:31 AM | Add Comment

Now Iowa has to deal with sharks in the flood waters! ... (Actually, it is a fake fin set afloat by a businessman in Burlington)

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 11:28 AM | Add Comment

See a Huge Moon Illusion Wednesday, "a trick in our minds that makes the moon seem bigger when it's near the horizon"

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 11:15 AM | Add Comment

Muslim woman said she and another woman were refused seats directly behind Barack Obama, and in front of TV cameras, at Detroit rally because they wear head scarfs; told it was because of a "sensitive political climate"

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 11:05 AM | Add Comment

Jellyfish outbreaks a sign of nature out of sync

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2008 10:59 AM | Add Comment

Dancer Cyd Charisse, star of MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, dies in LA at 86

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2008 4:30 PM | Add Comment

Photo: The New York Times building is struck by lightning

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2008 12:12 PM | Add Comment

Environmental microbiologist Chuck Gerba's study on bacteria on the soles of shoes reveals incredibly awful strains of fecal-based bacteria like E.coli, from public bathrooms and animals

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2008 12:06 PM | Add Comment

Helicopter saves sandbaggers as levees break in Iowa; highway expected to be under 10 feet of water. Pigs flee flood waters, with one lying on a levee, exhausted (photos)

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2008 11:25 AM | Add Comment

Romanian village re-elects dead mayor. "I know he died, but I don't want change," said one villager

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2008 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Some very fine writers, including dear Luciole Press friends and contributors, will be in Kansas City for a big poetry event June 20-22: Unregulated Word: A Summer Accident

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2008 7:22 AM | Add Comment

Montana: Glacier Park's 75th anniversary Sun Road celebration relocated due to June snow storm

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2008 7:10 AM | Add Comment

Hundreds flee as Taliban battle looms in Afghan south, supplemented by freed prisoners they broke out of jail. "They have blown up several bridges and are planting mines everywhere"

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2008 7:02 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A woman visits the artwork "Penetrable BBL Bleu" by artist Jesus Rafael Soto at the Art 39 in Basel, Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 8:59 PM | Add Comment

California economy boosted by gay marriages; out-of-state couples also allowed to marry. Photo: Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon have the first legal ceremony

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 8:48 PM | Add Comment

Mars team ponders white powder found by Phoenix lander in Martian soil: ice or salt ?

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 8:18 PM | Add Comment

Vasectomies for horses? A new way for zookeepers to manage birth rates for endangered species. Photo: a Przewalski horse named 'Minnesota' at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, who just had a reverse vasectomy

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 8:15 PM | Add Comment

Study illustrates empathy: Chimps calm each other with hugs and kisses to reduce stress and console

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 8:08 PM | Add Comment

How will the increase in oil prices affect everything you purchase? From plastics to lipsticks, petrochemicals are everywhere

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 1:05 PM | Add Comment

New Zealand restaurant in trouble for poisoning drinkers: Queenstown establishment served dishwashing liquid instead of mulled wine

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 5:20 AM | Add Comment

Photos of the Iowa flood, including houses being pushed against a bridge, and an article about pet rescues and donations

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 4:23 AM | Add Comment

Thousands of Zanjan University students in Iran protest the sexual harassment of a female colleague; students broke into office to free the girl

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 4:16 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Americans use Net to look beyond sound bites and get bigger picture: watching or reading unfiltered campaign material

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 4:11 AM | Add Comment

A lesbian couple of 55 years, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin ready to say 'I do' in San Francisco

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2008 4:01 AM | Add Comment

Father's Day: Origin and Facts (Happy Father's Day to everyone)

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2008 6:25 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A rainbow greets walkers along the Lewiston Levee in Lewiston, Idaho

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2008 4:24 AM | Add Comment

Photo update from earlier blog entry: another creation by US designer Elizabeth Muir, inspired by the nomadic Kuchi of Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2008 4:06 AM | Add Comment

Sex trade thrives in Afghanistan, with families often forcing children to prostitute themselves. Jamila Ghairat of the aid organization Women for Afghan Women says, "The girls are afraid of their families, the government and everyone."

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2008 3:55 AM | Add Comment
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