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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for August 2008

Sweden's Loch Ness monster, the Storsjoe or Great Lake monster, possibly caught on camera

Posted by kluciole at 8/31/2008 11:41 AM | Add Comment

McCain orders convention changes because of Hurricane Gustav: "We have to go from a party event to a call to the nation for action," he declared

Posted by kluciole at 8/31/2008 11:37 AM | Add Comment

Obama to ask his donors to help storm victims

Posted by kluciole at 8/31/2008 11:34 AM | Add Comment

PETA, UK officials hold talks on Buckingham Palace guards' hats (which are made from fur from Canadian black bears. It takes one whole bear to make a single hat. 50 to 100 hats are needed every year)

Posted by kluciole at 8/31/2008 11:26 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Model ships hang at the entrance to the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton; the attraction will close Sept. 1 after a ten year run

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2008 10:00 PM | Add Comment

Amazon deforestation on the rise, jumping 69 percent in the past 12 months

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2008 9:57 PM | Add Comment

Afghan child mortality linked to not just to war, but to mothers being uneducated and having little or no say when their children need medical help

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2008 9:50 PM | Add Comment

NO! Not the FIREFLIES! (Luciole's namesake; Luciole is French for firefly). Article: "Lights out? Experts fear fireflies are dwindling"

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2008 11:58 AM | Add Comment

More than 75 percent of of the Gulf of Mexico's offshore oil production has been cut off in the face of Hurricane Gustav

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2008 11:53 AM | Add Comment

Why do we get pictures of Sarah Palin's shoes? No pictures of Biden's boring shoes, eh? I know she was in Vogue, but come on...

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2008 11:39 AM | Add Comment

Evangelicals energized by McCain-Palin ticket

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2008 11:34 AM | Add Comment

Beijing cancels sentence for elderly grandmothers Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2008 11:28 AM | Add Comment

Gustav swells to dangerous Cat 4 storm off Cuba

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2008 11:19 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A nine-month-old female octopus holds a jar, which contains her favourite seafood snacks of shrimps, crabs and clams inbetween her tentacles in Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 10:42 PM | Add Comment

Brazil Indian reservation Raposa Serra do Sol targeted for breakup, pitting about 18,000 Amazon Indians against a handful of large-scale rice farmers who have violently fought efforts to remove them

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 10:34 PM | Add Comment

Trans fats linked to pre-cancerous colon growths

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 10:31 PM | Add Comment

Photo of John McCain making a face "as a supporter grasps his hand a bit aggressively at the end of a campaign rally"

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 10:28 PM | Add Comment

Canadian airline Jazz removes life vests to save weight and fuel

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 10:25 PM | Add Comment

In New Orleans, no shelter for those who stay: "The doors to the Superdome will be locked. Those who stay will be on their own"

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 4:04 PM | Add Comment

Pictured: The nine polar bears left to drown by the retreating ice. The ice floe they lived on melted, plunging them into the water; though land was 60 miles away, instinct took them to the polar ice, which is now 400 miles away

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Ancient gold wreath puzzles Greek archaeologists; artifacts appear to have been removed from a grave during ancient times and reburied, with human bones, in the marketplace near where Alexander the Great's father was murdered

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 3:50 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

I remember Sarah Palin from Vogue magazine, so I tracked down an article and a few pictures: "Gov. Sarah Palin got a break from answering questions about federal corruption probes... to take on the heady subject of fashion"

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 10:29 AM | Add Comment

McCain chooses Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for V.P., the first Republican woman chosen for national office

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 9:59 AM | Add Comment

Triathlete Barbara Warren dies after bike crash at the Santa Barbara Triathlon

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 9:55 AM | Add Comment

Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, will cap customers' Internet usage starting October 1

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 9:51 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Models display creations by South Korean fashion designer Andre Kim during the annual Bali Fashion Week

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 7:53 PM | Add Comment

Obama tells huge Dem crowd he'll cut taxes for nearly all working-class families, end the war in Iraq and break America's dependence on Mideast oil

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 7:45 PM | Add Comment

Obama flip-flops? Seriously? Doesn't anyone else think that is too much? Plus, I can hear the jokes about him being a true flip-flopper now

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 11:54 AM | Add Comment

Raccoon's courthouse crime spree at the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in downtown Atlanta ends with capture

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 11:51 AM | Add Comment

Going veggie can slash your carbon footprint

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 11:47 AM | Add Comment

Rove called Sen. Lieberman late last week urging him withdraw his name from McCain's vice presidential consideration

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 6:53 AM | Add Comment

British journalism student gang-raped by asylum seekers in Calais squatter camp

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 6:49 AM | Add Comment

Edna St. Vincent Millay: bio and two poems; "City Trees" and "Renascence"

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 4:28 AM | Add Comment

Rural America feels extra pain as gas prices rise

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 4:22 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a "Court Rapier" silver sword which belonged to Bonnie Prince Charlie from the 1700's (the exiled Jacobite claimant to the British throne who led the Scottish Highland army in the Forty-five Rebellion)

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 4:20 AM | Add Comment

A piece of 27-year-old cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana reaps £1,200 at UK auction; money to go to charity

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 4:13 AM | Add Comment

Lesbian activist Del Martin, who wed her partner of 55 years, Phyllis Lyon, in June in San Francico, dies at 87

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 4:08 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A toucan is seen at the Noel Kempff Mercado Zoo in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Posted by kluciole at 8/27/2008 1:11 PM | Add Comment

Dead Sea Scrolls to be displayed on Internet

Posted by kluciole at 8/27/2008 1:01 PM | Add Comment

New Orleans mulls evacuation as Tropical Storm (and likely soon Hurricane) Gustav looms

Posted by kluciole at 8/27/2008 12:53 PM | Add Comment

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton tells millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2008 7:19 PM | Add Comment

Photo: An Argentine couple dance during the qualifying round of the Tango Salon competition in Buenos Aires

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2008 12:28 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Light up the Fire, by Rumi

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2008 12:26 PM | Add Comment

Four-year-old cat in Germany called Bonny survives being walled in beneath bathtub for seven weeks

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2008 12:23 PM | Add Comment

Mexico flooding kills at least 50 horses and 71-year-old watchman Emilio Campos, who tried to save them

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2008 12:17 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press Contributor Janie interviews French artist Vincent Cherib about his photographic exhibition "Disaster Recovery"

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2008 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Monkeys experience joy of giving, too, study finds

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2008 9:30 PM | Add Comment

Feisty 8-month-old cockapoo puppy named Pawlee scares off 3 bears in NJ back yard

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2008 9:26 PM | Add Comment

Sen. Kennedy addresses Democratic convention, though "his physicians had been wary of the trip, especially his exposure to crowds, given the weakness of his immune system"

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2008 6:23 PM | Add Comment

Photos of Kyoto, a three-week old baby king penguin, at the Cincinnati Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2008 9:31 AM | Add Comment

Is the British national health care system what Americans think it is? Postcode lotteries to get needed medications, rationing: "Cancer victims 'forced into debt' to pay for medicines freely available elsewhere in Europe"

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2008 9:10 AM | Add Comment

Mohammed Al Majed, 16 years old, who was visiting the UK from Qatar to learn English, was attacked and beaten to death in Hastings, England, "for looking and sounding different"

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2008 8:55 AM | View Comments (25) | Add Comment

Ailing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy prepared to attend, and possibly speak at, the opening of the Democratic National Convention on Monday

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2008 8:51 AM | Add Comment

Pakistan's ruling coalition collapses amid dissent, "torn apart by internal bickering... underscoring fears that the government would be distracted from its fight against Islamic extremists"

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2008 8:46 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A Royal Bengal Tiger is pictured inside its enclosure at Alipore zoo in Kolkata; a yawn or sticking its tongue out? :)

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 11:20 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Filipino artist Sunshine Plata uses coffee as paint

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 11:14 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

FBI: Couple offered to trade sex with daughter, 5, for used car, apartment, and child care for 10-month-old daughter (who they later intended to sell for sexual services)

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 11:06 PM | Add Comment

Italian priest Rev. Antonio Rungi organizes beauty contest for nuns: "Miss Sister 2008"

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 11:02 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A newborn Javan Lutung (also known as Javan Langur) baby is embraced by its mother Smirre in the Budapest Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 10:56 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A child runs through an art installation by Jim Lambie at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 10:02 AM | Add Comment

View of economy somber from Federal Reserve, at their annual mountain retreat in Wyoming

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 9:56 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: The Lessons of the Beijing Olympics

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 9:47 AM | Add Comment

A message from the artist DIANA BONEBRAKE (Art Editor of Luciole Press): Paintings still available! Check them out...

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 9:41 AM | Add Comment

Foyle's War becomes Foyle's Peace - much-loved TV show will have new series set in peacetime

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2008 7:52 PM | Add Comment

Parents struggling with back-to-school buys are facing difficult challenges, shopping at Goodwill and telling teachers they cannot buy supplies

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2008 7:26 PM | Add Comment

Swimming with giant humpback whales in Tonga

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2008 7:15 PM | Add Comment

232 years ago the Battle of Brooklyn pitted 15,000 redcoats and Hessians against Gen. Washington, and nearly ended the Revolutionary War just two months after the Declaration of Independence

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2008 1:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Sri Lankan artist Sarath Yatawara and one of his paintings hanging on railings outside a park in Colombo

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2008 5:47 AM | Add Comment

Study finds new earthquake dangers for NYC

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2008 5:18 AM | Add Comment

Obama selects Biden to be veep running mate. Bio info on Biden; plus two articles. Does Obama go with the staus quo with this pick? Article on Biden's gaffes on race and wordiness; strong foreign policy experience

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2008 5:15 AM | Add Comment

Photo of a leopard in Sebangau National Park in Indonesia; a new population of rare leopard has been found living in thick forests on the Indonesian half of Borneo island

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2008 8:21 PM | Add Comment

Two classical Chinese poems: "Impromptu" by Meng Chiao, and "Outside the Eastern Gate" from the Shih Ching

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2008 7:59 PM | Add Comment

Two Beijing grandmothers, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying, remain defiant and in good spirits after being blocked from protesting lack of compensation for demolished homes during Olympics. Sentence is "one year of reeducation through labor"

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2008 7:43 PM | Add Comment

Yoga eases physical and mental menopause symptoms

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2008 7:39 PM | Add Comment

See Trio of Planets at Sunset

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2008 7:21 PM | Add Comment

Two wonderful versions of Alela Diane singing "Oh! My Mama." Watch both! Alela Diane is a singer from Nevada City, California

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2008 10:53 AM | Add Comment

Japanese create stem cells from wisdom teeth

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2008 10:47 AM | Add Comment

Designer Adama Kai brings haute couture home to Sierra Leone

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2008 10:38 AM | Add Comment

Australian officials euthanize lost baby whale who had tried to suckle from boats it mistook for its mother

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2008 10:27 AM | Add Comment

Abandoned baby girl in Argentina found safe with dog, who kept her warm as winter temperatures dipped low

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2008 10:21 AM | Add Comment

Pictured: refugess in Georgia, including children and elderly, in shelters. Plus, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev leads performance of Tchaikovsky in South Ossetia

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2008 12:04 PM | Add Comment

Obama raps McCain for ignorance of how many homes McCain and his wife own

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2008 11:53 AM | Add Comment

Maker of Snickers and M&Ms is raising prices right before Halloween

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2008 11:47 AM | Add Comment

Giuliani and Romney to crash Democrats' Denver party with slogan "Not Ready '08: A Mile High and an Inch Deep"

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2008 11:41 AM | Add Comment

Luciole Press friend and contributor Ellyn Maybe's poem: "PARALLEL UNIVERSE"

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2008 12:17 AM | Add Comment

Angel the dog, turned over to the Nevada Humane Society's shelter in Reno, is credited with saving six abandoned kittens

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2008 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Sen. Joe Biden's emergence at the center of speculation about who will be Barack Obama's running mate "crystalizes campaign concerns"

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2008 12:08 AM | Add Comment

POLITICO article: McCain calls lobbyists 'birds of prey'... vows to enforce a lifetime ban on lobbying for members of his administration

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2008 12:03 AM | Add Comment

Handful of Americans have tried selling their votes on eBay (which is illegal)

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2008 11:56 PM | Add Comment

A message from the artist DIANA BONEBRAKE (Art Editor of Luciole Press): Paintings still available! Check them out...

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2008 6:19 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Three months old snow leopard "Emba" inspects his enclosure during his first outing at the zoo in Rostock, northeastern Germany

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2008 3:58 AM | Add Comment

Margaret Atwood. Poem "Sekhmet, the Lion-headed Goddess of War"

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2008 3:27 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Actress Christina Applegate reveals decision to have double mastectomy, reports she is now clear and free of breast cancer

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2008 2:20 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Maria Callas in Concert - Hamburg 1962. "Habanera"

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2008 2:15 AM | Add Comment

Whale activists vow to fight Japan despite arrest threat

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2008 2:03 AM | Add Comment

Large U.S. bank collapse ahead, says ex-IMF economist

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2008 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A couple of storks sleep in a nest during a full moon in the countryside near Warsaw

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2008 3:21 PM | Add Comment

Yoda, the cat with FOUR ears, found a good home with Valerie and Ted Rock of Chicago after being put on display in a pub

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2008 3:14 PM | Add Comment

Muslim sprinter wins Olympic sprint dressed head to toe in hijab; Bahrain's Ruqaya Al Ghasara is the first athlete to ever take part in an Olympics wearing a hijab

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2008 3:05 PM | Add Comment

Hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said stillborn Israeli baby pronounced dead by doctors, who "came back to life" after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator, has since died again

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2008 2:49 PM | Add Comment
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