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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for November 2008

The Montados are the vast cork oak forests of the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, and home to rare animals like the Iberian lynx. You can help save the region by choosing your wines wisely (read more)

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2008 5:42 PM | Add Comment

Astronomers discover 'missing link' in galaxy evolution

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2008 5:34 PM | Add Comment

Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez asks supporters to petition for a constitutional amendment that would let him seek indefinite re-election

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2008 5:31 PM | Add Comment

New Zealand's foreign minister says: (We) will not be able to quickly rescue anyone who gets lost or hurt if clashes erupt between animal rights activists and Japanese whalers off the north Antarctic coast

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2008 5:21 PM | Add Comment

Sydney Opera House darkens to mourn the death of Joern Utzon, the Danish architect who created the design for the opera house

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2008 5:13 PM | Add Comment

Photo: wild horses at the Pryor Mountain National Wild Horse Range in south-central Montana

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2008 5:09 PM | Add Comment

Bush pardons Leslie Owen Collier, convicted of killing 3 bald eagles (he put out hamburger meat laced with the pesticide Furadan, killing 7 coyotes, a red-tailed hawk, a great horned owl, the eagles, and more)

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2008 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a swan swims through the reflection of lights on the water of Geneva Lake

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2008 7:01 PM | Add Comment

Key Molecule for Life Found in Habitable Region of the Galaxy (a sugar molecule called glycolaldehyde)

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2008 6:53 PM | Add Comment

Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2008 6:49 PM | Add Comment

Illinois family thanks employees with generous surprise, giving $6.6 million in year-end bonuses to Peer's 230 employees

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2008 6:44 PM | Add Comment

Obama team repackaging Clinton after campaign digs

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2008 6:26 PM | Add Comment

Photo: lion cub Zimbala and her mother Zimba at the zoo in Rostock, Germany

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2008 3:21 AM | Add Comment

Painting that inspired iconic Christmas card, "Beneath The Snow Encumbered Branches" by Scottish laird Joseph Farquharson, is to be auctioned off

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2008 3:08 AM | Add Comment

Destruction of Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest accelerates slightly over the past year, after slowing since 2004

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2008 3:01 AM | Add Comment

A series of small earthquakes that rattled central Arkansas in recent weeks could be a sign of something much bigger to come

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2008 2:55 AM | Add Comment

The stunning life-like horse sculptures made entirely of driftwood washed up on the beach, by artist Heather Jansch

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2008 1:16 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

From Luciole Press contributor, author Kurt Kamm's series gathered from firefighters' experiences: WORDS OF FIREFIGHTERS - 36 - DEFEATING THE DEVIL

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2008 1:12 PM | Add Comment

Report from British media -- Massacre in Mumbai: Up to SEVEN gunmen were British and 'came from same area as 7/7 bombers'

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2008 1:01 PM | Add Comment

New York rabbi and his wife among the dead in terrorist attacks at Jewish Center in Mumbai, India; their toddler was rescued. Also killed were a father and teenage daughter from Virginia, members of a meditation group

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2008 12:50 PM | Add Comment

Black Friday shoppers out in force, but cautious with spending; tragedy strikes in New York as Wal-Mart worker dies after being trampled by a throng of unruly shoppers

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2008 12:46 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Tsuyoshi, a four-year-old polar bear, at Kushiro Municipal Zoo in Japan

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2008 3:52 AM | Add Comment

Spectacular images of deep space taken by amateur astronomer Greg Parker, a professor of electronics at Southampton University

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2008 3:47 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a mermaid sculpture drips with icicles outside the Nauticus maritime and science museum in Norfolk, Va. ("Princess Azalea" is part of the Mermaids on Parade public art project)

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2008 3:34 AM | Add Comment

Playwright and novelist William Gibson, author of "The Miracle Worker" and "Two for the Seesaw," has died at the age of 94

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2008 3:30 AM | Add Comment

Food banks report record need on Thanksgiving

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2008 3:25 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Schoolchildren hold candles as they pay tributes to the victims of terrorist attacks in Mumbai at a school in Ahmadabad, India

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 8:04 AM | Add Comment

Daughter's testimony: murdered Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya saw suspicious strangers near her home in the weeks before she was killed

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 7:55 AM | Add Comment

Iranian court sentences a man to be blinded by acid, in punishment for blinding a woman by acid so no one else would marry her

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 7:47 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Ring-tailed lemurs warm themselves in front of an electric heater at the Japan Monkey Center in Inuyama

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 7:43 AM | Add Comment

Judge allows civil suit over co-worker's perfume; Susan McBride is severely sensitive to perfumes and other cosmetics and has "a potential claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act"

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 7:38 AM | Add Comment

Astronauts share freeze-dried Thanksgiving feast

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 7:34 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Estrogen May Explain Why Women With Cystic Fibrosis Suffer More

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 7:26 AM | Add Comment

Paintings by Swiss artists auctioned, inluding "Female Nude With Flowers (The Truth)" from 1913 by artist Cuno Amiet; "Portrait of Clara Pasche-Battie" from 1914, and "The Mower" from 1910 by artist Ferdinand Hodler

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2008 8:42 PM | Add Comment

Feds recover stolen bookmark that reportedly was given to Adolf Hitler by Eva Braun

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2008 8:35 PM | Add Comment

Photo: 7-month-old Mia Berke gazes up at a man dressed as a turkey, as she arrives for her flight at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2008 8:32 PM | Add Comment

Teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital of Mumbai, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2008 8:22 PM | Add Comment

Artist Ju Duoqi presents her work at her "The Vegetable Museum" exhibition at a photo gallery in Beijing (works include "Vincent Van Gogh Made of Leek" and "Napoleon On Potatoes")

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2008 3:02 AM | Add Comment

A tiny silver dun tovero foal, standing 15 inches in height, was born 10 days ago in Australia: "It’s the smallest horse I’ve ever had and she’s so gorgeous"

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2008 3:01 AM | Add Comment

FDA finds traces of melamine in US infant formula

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2008 3:00 AM | Add Comment

Photo: illuminated Christmas stars at the Gendarmenmarkt square in Berlin

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 1:37 PM | Add Comment

From Kurt Kamm, author and Luciole Press Contributor: Words of Firefighters - 35 - Surviving Cancer

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 1:31 PM | Add Comment

Thanksgiving sky: Jupiter, Venus, moon together

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 1:23 PM | Add Comment

South Sudan's women warriors struggle in peace: "I fought for freedom but have no chance of going to school"

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 1:18 PM | Add Comment

British government's identity card plan begins; the last time Britain had ID cards was at the end of World War II

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 1:15 PM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Left Out of the Bailout: The Poor

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 1:11 PM | Add Comment

Mystery `Eleanor Rigby' document goes to auction

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 1:06 PM | Add Comment

Marine archaeologists find remains of slave ship Trouvadore off the Turks and Caicos Islands that sunk in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 12:59 PM | Add Comment

Afghan teacher burned in acid attack on 15 schoolgirls and instructors wants the Afghan government to throw acid on attackers and then hang them; authorities have arrested 10 alleged Taliban militants for the Nov. 12 attack

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 12:51 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A chameleon sits on a tree at the zoo in Zurich

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2008 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Expertise Trumps Ideology in Obama's Early Picks

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2008 5:53 PM | Add Comment

Survey suggests people "Believe in Aliens and Ghosts More Than God"

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2008 5:46 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A snow-covered sheep near the Albispass mountain pass south of Zurich

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2008 5:42 PM | Add Comment

The Wolf That Changed America: the story of Lobo, his mate Blanca, and the man sent to kill them turned crusading naturalist, Ernest Thompson Seton (see the story on PBS)

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 9:13 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: Red Square, Spasskaya tower of the Kremlin and St.Basil Cathedral are seen during the first heavy snow fall in Moscow

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 7:47 PM | Add Comment

Solar panels on graves give power to Spanish town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 7:35 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Bush makes a funny face, while wearing a traditional Peruvian poncho for the official group photo of the 16th summit of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, in Lima

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 7:25 PM | Add Comment

TIME article --The Breadbasket of South Korea: Madagascar (international corporations and governments looking to compensate for shortages of arable land in their own countries by setting up massive industrial farms abroad)

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 7:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Large waves up to 10 feet tall crash into a pier during a wind storm in South Haven, Mich.

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 7:15 PM | Add Comment

Clinton prepares to relinquish independence, hard won by her election to the Senate from New York in 2000

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Vampire romance "Twilight" is now the biggest opening ever for a female director, taking in $70.6 million.

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 7:00 PM | Add Comment

From author and Luciole Press Contributor, Kurt Kamm: WORDS OF FIREFIGHTERS - 33

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showcases the brilliant core of NGC 1569, one of the most active star making galaxies in our local neighborhood

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 8:41 AM | Add Comment

Winter weather hard to predict this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 3:34 AM | Add Comment

Foreign Secretary David Miliband (ahead of his visit to Pakistan this week) announced that Britain was taking a tougher stand against forced marriage, with new powers to clamp down on the practice

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 3:30 AM | Add Comment

Australians return 11 stranded whales to sea

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 3:23 AM | Add Comment

Adorable little lion cub warming himself with an electric heater on a cold day at Everland Zoo in South Korea

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2008 3:20 AM | Add Comment

Photos of Ram Bahadur Bamjan, 18, believed by followers to be the reincarnation of Buddha. Short articles: 'Nepal's Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate,' and 'Mystery "Buddha boy" in Nepal vanishes, again'

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2008 1:28 PM | Add Comment

British may ban 'happy hour' as drink deaths rise; alcohol-related deaths among people aged 25 to 29 were 40 percent higher in 2006 than the year before

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2008 1:24 PM | Add Comment

The Screen Actors Guild says it will ask its members to authorize a strike

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2008 1:20 PM | Add Comment

College student bitten by panda in China zoo, after he broke into the bear's enclosure hoping to get a hug; same bear bit a drunk tourist after he too wanted a hug in 2006 (leave the bear alone!)

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2008 1:11 PM | Add Comment

Photos from the Castello di Amorosa in Calistoga, California; a metal cast of a dragon and a wall inside the Great Hall dining room

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 11:35 PM | Add Comment

Apocalypse how? Revealing the next catastrophic threat to our world: volcanoes, meteors, fire and ice

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 11:19 PM | Add Comment

Government warns of "catastrophic" U.S. quake in the vast seismic New Madrid zone in the southern and midwestern United States

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 11:15 PM | Add Comment

View of the Tinee Valley, southeastern France

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 1:12 PM | Add Comment

NY Times reports that Clinton has accepted Obama's secretary of state offer

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 1:07 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Dancers from China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe perform at Lisbon's Coliseum

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 11:59 AM | Add Comment

Teen D'Zhana Simmons, who lived 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital; since July, she's had two heart transplants and survived with artificial heart pumps between transplants

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 11:34 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

UN: Congo refugees suffer shooting, rape, looting

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 11:28 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Germany drops attempt to ban Scientology

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 11:25 AM | Add Comment

Gaffe-prone Sarah Palin gives Thanksgiving interview while turkeys are slaughtered in the background; as a man shoved turkeys down a metal death contraption, she said 'This was neat. I was happy to get invited to participate in this'

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 11:17 AM | Add Comment

Photo of the ceiling painting in the renovated Room XX at the United Nations offices in Geneva, created by contemporary Spanish artist Barcelo

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 12:23 AM | Add Comment

Winter photos: the moon settles behind the snow covered Pizalun mountain in Switzerland, and a partially frozen river is pictured at dawn near Kittilae in Lapland

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 12:18 AM | Add Comment

103 years later, Einstein's proven right: the e=mc2 formula shows that mass can be converted into energy, and energy can be converted into mass

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2008 12:08 AM | Add Comment

Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko denounced by Communist Party of St Petersburg, a splinter group, because 007 (Bond) is "a man who worked for decades under the orders of Thatcher and Reagan to destroy the USSR"

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2008 11:18 PM | Add Comment

China says 19,000 students died in May earthquake

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2008 11:15 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an incredibly cute African leopard cub looks out at visitors from its cage at Ghamadan zoo near Amman

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2008 5:16 PM | Add Comment

Water pollution leads to septic tank ban in Malibu, after a prolonged battle over bacterial pollution leaching into the ocean at popular beaches

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2008 5:10 PM | Add Comment

Scientists say they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2008 5:05 PM | Add Comment

Children dying in Haiti, victims of food crisis exacerbated by four devastating tropical storms

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2008 4:58 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Reindeer cross a snowy road near Torvinen in Lapland, early in the morning

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2008 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Five sheriff's deputies in North Carolina will be disciplined after they used a Taser while serving an arrest warrant on a man at his father's funeral

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2008 10:32 PM | Add Comment

Bush set to relax endangered species rules; animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams, highways and other projects don't pose a threat

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2008 10:27 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas this Friday; "(they) will not be arrested, and do not need to appear in person at the arraignment" says Presiding Judge Manuel Banales

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2008 10:22 PM | Add Comment

Herod may have been buried among lavish artwork; Hebrew University archaeologist Ehud Netzer says he has unearthed the 2,000-year-old remains of two sacrophagi in which a wife and daughter-in-law of the biblical King Herod had been interred

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2008 10:15 PM | Add Comment

Clump of dark matter may loom near solar system

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2008 10:10 PM | Add Comment

An AP photo of 2 little girls leads to a reunion in Congo; eleven-year-old Protegee had carried her sobbing niece on her back as they searched for relatives in a sea of people in eastern Congo

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 11:45 PM | Add Comment

Tiny, long-lost primate rediscovered in Indonesia; pygmy tarsiers were believed for 80 years to be extinct, and look like one of the creatures in the movie "Gremlins"

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 11:39 PM | Add Comment

French experts say they had proof that the Hope Diamond, a star exhibit in Washington's Smithsonian Institution, is a legendary gem once owned by King Louis XIV that was looted in the French Revolution

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

Photo of Tinks, the 13-year-old cat who is 96% overweight

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 4:56 PM | Add Comment
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