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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for March 2009

Poem sent in by Luciole Press Contributor/friend Scott Wannberg: "People Just Aren’t ~ for Charles Bukowski"

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press Contributor/friend Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -80- AN AUSSIE FIGHTS THE TSUNAMI (firefighter Scott Pearson)

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2009 11:38 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a South Korean worker attaches name cards on lanterns to celebrate the upcoming birthday of Buddha on May 2 at the Chogye Temple in Seoul

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Mars' seasonal cap of carbon dioxide ice has eroded many beautiful terrains as it transforms from ice to vapour

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2009 11:28 PM | Add Comment

Gorgeous photo of daffodils in York, UK, sent in by Luciole Press Contributor/friend Martyn Clayton!

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2009 4:43 AM | Add Comment

New Book: 'Pride And Prejudice and Zombies' -- Heroines Battle The Undead. "The Classic Regency Romance — Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!"

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2009 4:38 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a Chinese Arch or 'paifang', built in 2005, in close proximity to 13th century West Walls in England

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'Worse than the Taliban' - new law rolls back rights for Afghan women. President Karzai accused of trying to win votes by backing law that effectively legalises rape within marriage, and more

Posted by kluciole at 3/30/2009 11:58 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Introducing Luciole Press Contributor Mafy Golubtsova of Russia: see her photos taken at her family's dacha

Posted by kluciole at 3/30/2009 11:24 PM | Add Comment

Super-chemo targets cancer spreading to the liver

Posted by kluciole at 3/30/2009 11:09 PM | Add Comment

New law protects wild areas, setting aside more than 2 million acres in 9 states "to protect, preserve and pass down our nation's most treasured landscapes to future generations"

Posted by kluciole at 3/30/2009 11:04 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an ice formation on a tree indicates the height floodwaters reached on the Red River in Fargo

Posted by kluciole at 3/30/2009 10:58 PM | Add Comment

They're the soundtrack to spring, but their numbers are dwindling. What is to blame for the vanishing cuckoo?

Posted by kluciole at 3/30/2009 10:54 PM | Add Comment

Editor's Note from Karen Bowles: LUCIOLE PRESS SPRING / SUMMER ISSUE 2009

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2009 11:34 PM | View Comments (20) | Add Comment

NEW ISSUE of Luciole Press up early!! Double Issue, SPRING/SUMMER 2009. Jam-packed with artistic riches!

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2009 8:58 PM | Add Comment

Environmentalists hail Earth Hour as a big success: "probably the largest public demonstration on climate change ever... (and) first-ever global vote about the future of our planet"

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2009 11:45 AM | Add Comment

Tax havens (such as Liechtenstein) eye uncertain future after concessions

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2009 11:32 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a stunning rainbow forms as rain hits La Paz, Bolivia

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 11:08 PM | Add Comment

Most European countries favor total ban on importing seal-related products

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 11:02 PM | Add Comment

Rihanna Police Photo as...Art?! L.A.-based pop artist Sham Ibrahim's "intent is not to raise awareness about domestic violence." Does it glorify it?

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 10:56 PM | Add Comment

Photo: people wave their glow sticks after switching off the lights in honor of Earth Hour... (Manila)

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 10:47 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Gwendolyn Brooks, "To Be In Love"

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 10:15 PM | Add Comment

Hungry leopard rescued after falling into a well (India)

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 9:55 PM | Add Comment

VP Biden: "no plans to scrap Cuba embargo"

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 9:50 PM | Add Comment

Spanish court considers trying former US officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 9:46 PM | Add Comment

Photo: two Mission golden-eyed tree frogs sit on a leaf in their tank at Chester Zoo. The frogs are native to the Amazonian regions of South America

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 7:16 AM | Add Comment

A new poem sent in by Luciole Press contributor/friend Scott Wannberg: "just a midnight room"

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 7:03 AM | Add Comment

"We're not handing over the Falklands" UK PM Brown vows as he meets Argentine President Cristina Kirchner. 255 British servicemen, more than 650 Argentines and three islanders were killed during the Falklands war in 1982

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2009 6:26 AM | Add Comment

Photo: three Sumatran tiger cubs play in the tiger exhibit at San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park

Posted by kluciole at 3/27/2009 9:20 PM | Add Comment

Surprise supernova: Massive star explodes despite being "too immature" to self-destruct

Posted by kluciole at 3/27/2009 9:15 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a black bird (not sure what kind) hitches a ride on the back of an eagle in flight

Posted by kluciole at 3/27/2009 9:11 PM | Add Comment

Another part of the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press Contributor/friend and author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -78- WHY I AM ANGRY

Posted by kluciole at 3/27/2009 9:08 PM | Add Comment

Artist David Hockney's horror after trees he was half-way through painting are 'massacred'

Posted by kluciole at 3/27/2009 8:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a Turkish man throws a fish to a seagull during a sunset in Istanbul

Posted by kluciole at 3/27/2009 8:45 AM | Add Comment

Study shows: not only do crabs suffer pain, but they retain a memory of it

Posted by kluciole at 3/27/2009 8:36 AM | Add Comment

Red River breaks 112-year flood record in Fargo; region braces

Posted by kluciole at 3/27/2009 8:26 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Hundreds of fish swim with a turtle in a pond at the Sleeping Buddha Temple in Beijing, China

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2009 10:24 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a dog stands on ground beside a flooded building as the Red River continues to rise in Fargo, North Dakota

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2009 10:21 PM | Add Comment

Interviews support Israeli army misconduct in Gaza

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2009 10:08 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Buds are seen on the cherry trees surrounding the Tidal Basin near the Jefferson Memorial

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2009 10:04 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a sculpture by New York artist Padraig Tarrant called Castrobama, at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2009 9:52 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Another poem sent in by Luciole Press Contributor/friend Scott Wannberg: "jehovah, get thee to the witness box"

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2009 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Adorable rare clouded leopard cubs beat the odds to survive at the National Zoo (US)

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2009 9:32 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press Contributor/friend and author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -73- INVENTIONS TO SAVE LIVES

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2009 9:30 PM | Add Comment

(Travel) -- Ruins of Ephesus: From goddess Nike to St. Paul

Posted by kluciole at 3/25/2009 10:53 PM | Add Comment

(PLEASE READ) -- Why the credit crunch is killing thousands of pet horses whose cash-strapped owners can no longer afford to keep them

Posted by kluciole at 3/25/2009 10:33 PM | Add Comment

Christian Science Monitor prints its final edition on Friday, ending 100-year run as a daily newspaper, but beginning a new era as an online publication

Posted by kluciole at 3/25/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Elke, a five-day-old Francois Langur, makes her media debut at Taronga Zoo's Wildlife Hospital in Sydney

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2009 9:54 PM | Add Comment

Video: Ralph Vaughan Williams, "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis"

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2009 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Scientists are reconstructing Queen Hatshepsut's perfume: "What Does an Egyptian Pharaoh Smell Like?"

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2009 9:19 PM | Add Comment

Komodo dragons are fantastic; here is a photo of one in Indonesia

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2009 9:17 PM | Add Comment

Reprint from an earlier edition of Luciole Press: Contributor and friend Patrick Kawahara's photo essay about Manzanar Relocation Center, a Japanese-American Internment Camp that opened in March of 1942

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 9:44 PM | Add Comment

To be in the next issue: Luciole Press Contributor and friend Scott Wannberg's new poem-- "where'd my travis tritt video link go????" -- mentions Luciole Press and Editor Karen :):)

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 9:30 PM | Add Comment

Video: "Villdans" by Martine Lund Hoel

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Photo: visitors walk through the Thunderbolt Passage inside the Meteorologic Popular Science Hall in China

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Wislawa Szymborska: 3 poems and a quote

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 5:01 PM | Add Comment

Photo: scientists have recreated the image of Arsinöe, the murdered sister of Cleopatra

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 4:56 PM | Add Comment

Pandora - the horse that's allergic to grass; owner Emily Pearce covers her in protective layers, feeds her a special diet, and gives her anti-histamine tablets

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 6:26 AM | Add Comment

Obama: Anger isn't governing strategy

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 6:23 AM | Add Comment

South Africa bars Dalai Lama from peace conference, saying it does not want to endanger the government's relationship with China. He would be welcome again in the future — but "not now, when the whole world is looking at South Africa"

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 6:15 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Sunset on Atlantic Beach, North Carolina

Posted by kluciole at 3/22/2009 5:45 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press Winter Issue Column from Esmaa Self -- "Organics: It's a Balance Thing"

Posted by kluciole at 3/22/2009 5:10 PM | Add Comment

The Dictionary of American Regional English: "On to Z! Quirky regional dictionary nears finish"

Posted by kluciole at 3/22/2009 5:06 PM | Add Comment

In this economy, "More women needing cash go from jobless to topless"

Posted by kluciole at 3/22/2009 5:00 PM | Add Comment

GOP predicts doomsday if Obama budget passed

Posted by kluciole at 3/22/2009 4:51 PM | Add Comment

Photo: birds rest on buffaloes in a pond in Hyderabad

Posted by kluciole at 3/22/2009 4:48 PM | Add Comment

One more poem from Banjo Paterson: "Sunrise on the Coast"

Posted by kluciole at 3/22/2009 5:05 AM | Add Comment

I do this routine three times every morning! (kidding) Video: OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"

Posted by kluciole at 3/22/2009 4:58 AM | Add Comment

Photo: This should cut down on pollution! Sign at Hells Gate in Rotorua, New Zealand... "Persons who throw litter or stones into thermal pools may be asked to retrieve them"

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2009 10:09 PM | Add Comment

Another poem from Banjo Paterson: "Black Swans"

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2009 9:51 PM | Add Comment

The Baroque (art movement): the senses, the intellect, the heart and the very soul. "Much of what we now take for granted in the arts... developed in that era"

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2009 9:45 PM | Add Comment

Feinstein to push legislation that would turn donated Mojave Desert land into a national monument, "setting up a potential clash between conservationists and companies seeking to develop renewable energy"

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2009 9:32 PM | Add Comment

Australian Internet `blacklist' prompts concern

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2009 9:24 PM | Add Comment

Alaska and Florida consider bans on bestiality: "The act of forcing a living creature to engage in a sexual activity without the ability of consent cannot simply be viewed as a personal choice — no more than forcing a child or an impaired adult would be"

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2009 9:16 PM | Add Comment

Trophy hunters can go on ‘shoot a polar bear’ holidays in Canada

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2009 9:13 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Snails! "Mama takes baby for a midnight feast!"

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

Follow-up on article featured yesterday: "Former Nazi guard Josias Kumpf, involved in massacre of 8,000 Jews, set free after deportation from US as he cannot be prosecuted in Austria"

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 11:43 PM | Add Comment

Photos: the Fallas festival, welcoming Spring and honoring St. Joseph's Day in Valencia; a stairway to the roof of the Imam Al Shafi'i Mosque in Cairo's City of the Dead; and candles at Apostolos Andreas monastery in northern Cyprus

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 11:34 PM | Add Comment

Travel: Struggling to practice Arabic in Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 11:26 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Russian ad depicts "a smiling, cartoonish black man flashing the victory sign in front of the US capital building, along with the Russian slogan: "Everyone's talking about it: dark inside white!" Obama ice cream, anyone?"

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 11:23 PM | Add Comment

The ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press Contributor, Kurt Kamm: Firefighter's Words -74- "Parts Detail"

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 11:20 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a blue-footed booby (bird) is seen on Seymour Island, in the Galapagos National Park

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 2:33 AM | Add Comment

Two poems by John Donne: "The Sun Rising" and "Break of Day"

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 2:25 AM | Add Comment

AP IMPACT: Many Iraqis held by US to go free

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 2:19 AM | Add Comment

Report: Energy production of all types — wind, ethanol and mountaintop coal mining — is contributing to steep drops in bird populations

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 2:12 AM | Add Comment

Former Nazi guard living in Wisconsin deported; 83-year-old Josias Kumpf served as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany (and more)

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 2:08 AM | Add Comment

Cutest lizards ever! Tuataras: "Rare baby reptile dating back to dinosaur age is found on New Zealand mainland for first time in 200 years"

Posted by kluciole at 3/19/2009 3:53 PM | Add Comment

Photos: an underwater volcano erupts off the coast of Tonga, in Hunga Ha'apai

Posted by kluciole at 3/19/2009 3:42 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Emily Dickinson's "Crow's Wing"

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2009 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Mother orangutan catches rope thrown by humans and swims across flooded river to save her baby in Borneo

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2009 6:48 PM | Add Comment

Poor injured bat 'Brian' hangs on to shuttle Discovery, unable to fly away: "Bat Hung On For a Ride Into Space"

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2009 6:31 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Arp 261 lies about 70 million light-years distant in the constellation of Libra

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2009 10:50 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Emily Dickinson’s “A Bird Came Down the Walk”

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2009 9:56 PM | Add Comment

Cubans applaud rolling back US family travel rules

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2009 9:52 PM | Add Comment

Health care overhaul may cost about $1.5 trillion

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2009 9:47 PM | Add Comment

The Havasupai Tribe, who live in a gorge off the Grand Canyon, plan to reopen the flood-damaged area to tourists on May 1

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2009 9:22 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press contributor, author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -71- THREE STORIES

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2009 9:19 PM | Add Comment

New Mexico State Senate OKs bill to curb wildlife slaughter

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2009 2:39 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a keeper holds two yowling newborn Siberian tigers in Harbin, north-east China

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2009 11:23 PM | Add Comment

Poor little guy: "The hog with no hedge; how a mysterious skin condition made Spud's spikes fall out"

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2009 11:16 PM | Add Comment
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