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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for February 2009

Photo: Page from the Book of Kells

Posted by kluciole at 3/1/2009 12:00 AM | Add Comment

Photos of two-tailed comet Lulin streaking past Earth

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2009 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Video: Lhasa de Sela, "La Marée Haute"

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2009 11:40 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A duck swims through the oily waters of the Moskva river in central Moscow

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2009 11:30 PM | Add Comment

With hundreds of thousands of photographs taken up unsuspecting women's skirts being posted online, the practice of 'upskirting' is on the rise

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2009 11:24 PM | Add Comment

Girls being force-fed for marriage as Mauritania's junta revives fattening farms

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2009 11:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Borneo pygmy elephants look for food along the Kinabatangan river... Some herds of the endangered elephants are thriving on the fruit of palm oil plantations that encroach on their domains

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2009 10:01 PM | Add Comment

Delta Queen docks in Chattanooga to become hotel

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2009 9:55 PM | Add Comment

Experts trying to decipher ancient language, after archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal find chunk of slate with writing not used for more than 2,500 years

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2009 9:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Scientists nickname image of the Helix Nebula, 700 light years away, as the "Eye of God" for its ocular appearance

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2009 2:22 AM | Add Comment

Previously featured poet Banjo Paterson (author of "The Man from Snowy River")... Poem: "A Ballad of Ducks"

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2009 2:06 AM | Add Comment

Surfer-turned-photographer Clark Little of Oahu takes many of his incredible photos from inside the breaking waves

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:33 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Monarch butterfly perches on a tree branch as another takes flight at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, near the town of Chincua, Mexico. They are under threat from deforestation...

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:28 PM | Add Comment

Milan loses fashion appetite

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:13 PM | Add Comment

Photo: rolling in the snow is a delight for Siberian tiger Tinka, at a zoo near Lausanne, Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:10 PM | Add Comment

Poems (and Bio): Sugawara Takesue no Musume

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Scientists meet to save Lascaux cave from fungus ... (photos and video)

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:14 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Three horses run side by side through a snow covered meadow near Wangen im Allgaeu, southern Germany

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:11 AM | Add Comment

13,000-year-old tools unearthed at Colorado home

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:05 AM | Add Comment

Tree of little knowledge (or how most of us are unable to tell our ash from our elder)

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:00 AM | Add Comment

Video: Mediæval Bæbes - "Salva nos"

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2009 4:43 AM | Add Comment

Deep-sea fish with a transparent head: the "amazing barreleye fish really does have eyes in the back of his head"

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2009 12:58 AM | Add Comment

Want to know what it is like to drive through Glenwood Canyon in Colorado? Video: "The Canyon" by Philip Glass

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2009 12:47 AM | Add Comment

More from Gary Bachlund; continuing from the blog entry below about Rosalía de Castro. Bachlund mentions his work on Antonio Machado's "En El Entierro de Un Amigo"

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2009 12:29 AM | Add Comment

Video: Arvo Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel' .... (reminds me a bit of previously featured Eric Whitacre's "Lux Aurumque")

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2009 12:23 AM | Add Comment

Melting red Omega moon rising: Photographer catches rare lunar spectacle

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2009 12:15 AM | Add Comment

Sent in by Luciole's lovely Diana Bonebrake: Shakespeare's Sonnet # 139

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2009 11:32 PM | Add Comment

Politico: "We have seen the enemy and it is us" ... an article about President Obama's speech, and our part in the economic crisis

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2009 11:06 PM | Add Comment

Ravensbrueck exhibition exposes sex slavery at Nazi camps: "There was a spy hole and sometimes the guards would peek in and sneer... But you know, we were so numb that we just thought, 'Get stuffed, you bastards'"

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2009 11:05 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -66- FIRST CALL

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2009 11:02 PM | Add Comment

More from previously featured poet Rosalía de Castro... I am excited to find "Dos Canciones de Rosalía de Castro" by Gary Bachlund ("La eterna primavera" and " No eres vano sueño")

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2009 11:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Vladimir Putin faces rising anger from within Russian army "as discontent over medieval conditions and personnel cuts mounts"

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2009 10:59 PM | Add Comment

A woman chasing a feather falls 80 feet to her death over a cliff edge: "She had been leaning over to pick up the feather and just toppled over"

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2009 10:50 PM | Add Comment

Alp-sized peaks found entombed in Antarctic ice

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2009 10:43 PM | Add Comment

Prepared text of President Obama's address to Congress

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2009 10:38 PM | Add Comment

Mind the crevasse: the amazing 3D pavement art that has pedestrians on edge (giant optical illusions conceived by German artist Edgar Mueller)

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2009 2:16 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "First Love," by Shimazaki Toson

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2009 1:55 AM | Add Comment

Poetry and history: "The Golden Road to Samarkand" by James Elroy Flecker

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2009 12:09 AM | Add Comment

I would love to see Samarkand: "In 2001, UNESCO inscribed the 2750-year-old city on the World Heritage List as 'Samarkand - Crossroads of Culture'"

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

Good news: "FBI, police rescue child prostitutes around US"

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2009 11:45 PM | Add Comment

Health care costs to top $8,000 per person

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2009 11:42 PM | Add Comment

"Jupiter-sized" comet Lulin to streak past Earth tonight

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2009 11:40 PM | Add Comment

Photo: two male wolves cloned by a team of scientists from Seoul National University, at a zoo in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2009 11:38 PM | Add Comment

Rare Jaguars Spotted in Arizona and Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2009 11:28 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -65- THE WEATHER

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2009 11:23 PM | Add Comment

Photo: one-month-old baby black howler monkey and his mother Agra looks out from a tree in the Singapore Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2009 1:20 AM | Add Comment

"Serranilla," by Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Marques de Santillana

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 11:36 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Po Chü-i, "Song of Unending Sorrow" ... (also known as "Song of Everlasting Regret")

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 11:25 PM | Add Comment

Egypt briefly opens Gaza border for 1,000 to cross

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 11:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a hippopotamus and her young rest at their enclosure at the zoo in Berlin

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 10:28 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a butterfly settles on a potted plant in Baghdad

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 10:25 AM | Add Comment

Poachers put Balkan lynx on brink of extinction

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 10:20 AM | Add Comment

News from good friend and Luciole Press contributor Graywolf: Native American actors (25-45) needed for roles... Graywolf Productions is casting many shows!

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 7:43 AM | Add Comment

Photos from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 12:52 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Erica Jong, "Nursing You"

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 12:31 AM | Add Comment

New Butterfly Discovered with Mustache Disguise

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 12:25 AM | Add Comment

A Mexican kidnapping: Police apathy, few answers

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 12:19 AM | Add Comment

Uproar over plans for giant wind farm off the coast of Dorset, England

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 12:15 AM | Add Comment

Destination Jupiter: NASA and ESA plan multi-billion dollar space mission to gas giant

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2009 6:36 PM | Add Comment

Rev. Damien de Veuster, a 19th-century Belgian priest who ministered to leprosy patients in Hawaii and died of the disease, will be canonized as a saint this year

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2009 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario. Says one economist, "If we don't deal with climate change decisively... what we're talking about then is extended world war"

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2009 6:25 PM | Add Comment

Two poems from N. Scott Momaday: "The Earth" and "The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee"

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2009 1:22 AM | Add Comment

Geronimo and his family have rights; if Yale has his remains, they should give them back

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2009 1:04 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Steam rising from the Rio Blanco river after the Chaiten volcano spewed ash, about 760 miles south of Santiago

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 9:09 PM | Add Comment

5 short poems by Piet Hein: "I'd Like -" ... "Making an Effort" ... "A Psychological Tip" ... "Living Is -" ... and "Brave"

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 8:26 PM | Add Comment

Dialect dilemma: "Cornish, Manx and Irish just three of 2,500 languages facing extinction, say UN"

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 8:14 PM | Add Comment

Photo: time exposure ("light painting") made for circular star tracks, seen over a run-down barn near Iron River, Wisconsin

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 8:09 PM | Add Comment

Thailand's king pardons jailed Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, who was accused of insulting the Thai royal family in a book that sold 7 copies

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 8:04 PM | Add Comment

Colombian rebel turncoat claims government betrayal

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 7:54 PM | Add Comment

Activists 'shocked' at Clinton stance on China rights: "our pressing on those issues can't interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis," Clinton told reporters

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 7:50 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -63- NIGHTMARE

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 7:46 PM | Add Comment

Photo of the Orion nebula.... Poem: "Stars" by Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 3:27 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Lucy Maud Montgomery, "As the Heart Hopes"

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 2:12 AM | Add Comment

Missing dinosaur link found in Argentina

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 2:03 AM | Add Comment

US space agency's Fermi telescope spots biggest gamma-ray burst ever detected, in the Carina constellation 12.2 billion light-years from earth

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 1:54 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a Dahlia flower blooms at a public garden in New Delhi, India

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2009 5:56 PM | Add Comment

Texas may let hunters shoot pigs from choppers

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2009 5:53 PM | Add Comment

Russian court acquits 3 over Politkovskaya murder: "This failure amounts to a human rights crisis" ... "The man prosecutors suspect of pulling the trigger is on the run; they have never identified the person they believe ordered her murder"

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2009 5:42 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Argentina orders Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson out

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2009 5:38 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the skipper butterfly (Britain)

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2009 11:37 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Anna Akhmatova, "Willow"

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2009 11:33 PM | Add Comment

Life not all a Carnival for Rio's drum queens

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2009 11:18 PM | Add Comment

NY Post cartoon of dead chimpanzee stirs outrage

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2009 11:14 PM | Add Comment

Photo: rain clouds hang over the West Los Angeles area

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

An article: "Britain's last surviving pit pony, Pip, has died" ... and a letter: "Protect ponies from misery and toil down the mines"

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2009 11:52 PM | Add Comment

More about Mary Oliver: a bio and poem, "The Swan"

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2009 11:43 PM | Add Comment

Failure to save East Europe will lead to worldwide meltdown: the unfolding debt drama in Russia, Ukraine, and the EU states of Eastern Europe has reached acute danger point

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2009 11:36 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a hairy frogfish takes a leisurely stroll on the seabed

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2009 8:36 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

New article on previously featured topic, the comet Lulin: "Backward green comet makes one-time only visit"

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2009 8:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: fire has ripped through nearly six thousand hectares of the pristine Wilson's Promontory national park southeast of Melbourne

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2009 7:03 AM | Add Comment

English train station posts "no kissing" sign

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2009 6:54 AM | Add Comment

Dolphin stays with shark-wounded mate for three days, then escorts him to humans for help

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2009 6:50 AM | Add Comment

Video: Andrés Segovia, "Asturias"

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2009 12:16 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Mary Oliver, "When Death Comes"

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2009 11:58 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Michel Laboure of France is pulled by his Siberian Huskies during the Sled Dog World Championships in Werfenweng (Austria's Salzburg province)

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2009 11:54 PM | Add Comment

Chavez win sparks opposition warnings of greater authoritarian rule

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2009 11:38 PM | Add Comment

European Space Agency hopes to clean up space junk

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2009 11:34 PM | Add Comment

Scientists puzzled: why do at least 235 types of the same "cold-loving creatures" exist in both the Arctic and Antarctic seas? Tests will be carried out to see if the species are identical

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2009 5:34 PM | Add Comment

France's role in Holocaust legally recognized

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2009 5:29 PM | Add Comment

Keep drinking milk! Article: "Dairy cows head for slaughter as milk prices sour"

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2009 5:23 PM | Add Comment
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