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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for March 2009

(Previously featured writer) Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, "In Which She Satisfies A Fear With The Rhetoric Of Tears"

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2009 10:59 PM | Add Comment

Photo: two children become astronauts for the day at the National Space Centre in Leicester, as part of "Great Big Astronomy Day"

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2009 10:55 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a wounded male Royal Bengal Tiger sits in a cage at a veterinary zoo hospital Kolkata. Climate change is causing tigers to prowl into villages for food

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2009 10:45 PM | Add Comment

Fossil sea monster's bite makes T-Rex look feeble

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2009 10:37 PM | Add Comment

Emilia Pardo Bazán: "First Love"

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Photo: a pair of storks return to their nest in Przemysl, Poland, following their traditional winter break in Africa.

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2009 5:46 AM | Add Comment

Ireland's Aran Islands: Wild beauty and J.M. Synge (plus a festival dedicated to the BBC show "Father Ted")

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2009 5:39 AM | Add Comment

Brazil: Vatican prelate defends abortion for 9-year-old

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Photo: elephants enjoy blocks of ice containing frozen fruit during Thailand's National Elephant day at Ayutthaya Elephant Palace & Royal Kraal, north of Bangkok

Posted by kluciole at 3/15/2009 6:20 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Louisa May Alcott, "Thoreau's Flute"

Posted by kluciole at 3/15/2009 6:13 PM | Add Comment

Dollars from dirt: Economy spurs home garden boom

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Discovery blasts off on historic mission to International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 3/15/2009 5:45 PM | Add Comment

Archeologists and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Princess Arsinöe, the younger sister Cleopatra had murdered

Posted by kluciole at 3/15/2009 5:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a man leads his camels, as tourists watch the sun set over the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2009 11:39 PM | Add Comment

Coming soon: Luciole Press Spring/Summer Issue 2009

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2009 11:27 PM | Add Comment

Searching for tigers in Cambodia

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2009 11:22 PM | Add Comment

Brave women in Congo speak out about rape despite taboo (PLEASE READ)

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2009 10:55 PM | Add Comment

Photo: solar panels cover the roof of the Paul VI hall near the cupola of Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, in Rome

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2009 10:52 PM | Add Comment

Academic Julian Luxford says he's found evidence that Britain's legendary outlaw Robin Hood wasn't as popular as folklore suggests

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2009 10:32 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a huge blue iceberg floating in the Weddell Sea, in Chile

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2009 10:22 PM | Add Comment

Archaeologists uncover stunning Mayan carvings of cosmic monsters (described in the Popol Vuh), hidden in the jungle for 2,000 years

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2009 10:14 PM | Add Comment

Poisoned, wounded Calif. condor treated at LA Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2009 10:07 PM | Add Comment

Food for thought: "Universities can survive only with radical reform"

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2009 10:03 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a giraffe sticks out his tongue at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2009 9:59 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a full moon sets behind the Golden Gate Bridge at dawn

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2009 1:43 AM | Add Comment

Stewart hammers Cramer on "The Daily Show"

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2009 9:21 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a child touches the paw of a polar bear through a window at the St. Felicien Wildlife Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2009 3:01 PM | Add Comment

Poem: John Clare, "The Instinct of Hope"

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2009 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Three poems by Tadeusz Ròzewicz

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

Astronauts forced to take refuge in escape pod after International Space Station comes under attack from junk

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2009 2:14 PM | Add Comment

Photos: when Kevin Richardson decided to cool off in the sweltering South African heat he was joined by an unlikely swimming partner - a giant lioness

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2009 2:02 PM | Add Comment

Hope: Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center works to save jobs with the help of employees; "workers don't want anyone to get laid off and are willing to give up pay and benefits to make sure no one does"

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2009 1:53 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Indian couples sit on a sea wall, enjoying the sunset in Mumbai

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2009 1:49 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Why Rush Limbaugh Is Good for the Republicans. "The Republicans' decline is now entering a phase in which its members are more emotionally invested in attacking each other than in attacking Obama"

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2009 1:38 PM | Add Comment

Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2009 1:34 PM | Add Comment

Texas Gov. Rick Perry rejects $555 million in stimulus money that would expand state unemployment benefits

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2009 1:22 PM | Add Comment

Photo: bejeweled chainmail masks at 'surrealist' Alexander McQueen's show in Paris

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2009 12:49 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Tests could find ovarian cancer early

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2009 12:37 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a sleepy bear lies on an artificial stone at a zoo in Warsaw

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2009 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Deimos, the smaller of the two moons of Mars

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2009 1:00 AM | Add Comment

Videos: The Secret of NIMH, by Don Bluth

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2009 12:48 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Pablo Neruda's "Water" ... (plus photos)

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2009 5:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a less-than-happy-looking model presents a creation by Indian fashion designer Manish Arora, in Paris

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2009 5:13 PM | Add Comment

Info sent in by Luciole Press contributor Melanie Dorsey: MIXED - Named "Best solo show" by the Actor's Repertory. "MIXED has been described as the first truly multi-cultural portrayal of Americans ever"

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2009 4:47 PM | Add Comment

Can NASA take a joke? Try space station Colbert

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2009 4:30 PM | Add Comment

Protestant and Catholic leaders of Northern Ireland mount exceptional display of unity against rising violence from Irish Republican Army dissidents

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2009 4:25 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a baby whale shark (the world's biggest fish), born off Pilar, eastern Philippines

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2009 4:20 PM | Add Comment

Photos: two paintings of Venice, by Walter Sickert

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2009 10:00 PM | Add Comment

Two poems by Theodore Roethke: "The Waking" and "The Sloth"

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2009 9:48 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Study: Belligerent chimp proves animals make plans (Santino lives at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden, and gathers rocks to throw at visitors)

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2009 9:43 PM | Add Comment

Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Shrinking

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2009 9:37 PM | Add Comment

Most everyone has seen this by now, but here is a good quality reproduction of the "newly discovered" portrait of William Shakespeare, juxtaposed with other "portraits"

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

A message from the man who first spotted Pearl, the white deer, and took photos of her. Dave Bartle also says Pearl should be protected, and that his interview was taken out of context

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

Comment from family member of Kevin Stuart, featured in article: "An extremely rare white deer discovered in the Scottish lowlands has become subject of a bidding war between hunters wanting to kill it"

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2009 11:28 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photos: polar bear cubs and their mother

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 11:24 PM | Add Comment

Video: the opening sequence of "The Cat From Outer Space"

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 11:19 PM | Add Comment

My cat's favorite poem: Pablo Neruda's "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market"

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Afrin PureSea nasal rinse is actually "water from the murky English Channel"

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 3:23 PM | Add Comment

An extremely rare white deer discovered in the Scottish lowlands has become subject of a bidding war between hunters wanting to kill it

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 3:11 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photos: Crazy signs around the world

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 2:59 PM | Add Comment

A 450-year-old painting by Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder has been stolen from a Lutheran church in the southern Norway town of Larvik

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 2:53 PM | Add Comment

Photo: workers harvest soybeans at a farm in Tangara da Serra, Mato Grosso state, western Brazil

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 12:31 PM | Add Comment

Chinese bronzes, Gandhi's glasses in art tussle: "auctions are a battleground for art dealers, activists and aggrieved countries dueling for plundered antiquities and lost pieces of heritage"

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 12:21 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Shoe reportedly thrown at Iranian president Ahmadinejad

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 12:13 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a polar bear shakes his body to remove water at the St. Felicien Wildlife Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 1:04 AM | Add Comment

Today is International Women's Day

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6 months after Hurricane Ike, Galveston County families are trying to find new housing as FEMA "pulls the plug on its voucher program"

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2009 12:50 AM | Add Comment

Lucky enough to travel internationally? Here are some Spring events to take in... and a few lovely destinations with ongoing delights

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2009 7:54 PM | Add Comment

New article on previously featured topic: NASA's first planet-hunting telescope heads into space (Kepler)

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2009 7:49 PM | Add Comment

Video: "Seneca" by Bardo State, with scenes from Eric Valli's film "Himalaya"

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2009 11:22 AM | Add Comment

Mobile phones may be source of hospital infections

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2009 11:18 AM | Add Comment

Discord likely over ratifying women's rights pact (CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women): "It's a shame that the U.S. stands with countries such as Iran, Sudan and Somalia in failing to ratify the treaty"

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2009 11:13 AM | Add Comment

'The Color Purple' author Alice Walker is traveling to Gaza

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2009 11:07 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a statue of ancient pharaoh Amenhotep III, which was found by an excavation team clearing out a temple dedicated to the pharaoh on the west bank of the Nile in the southern city of Luxor, in Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2009 11:03 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a beauteous lemur (love the tail hanging over the branch)

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2009 8:45 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Prayer" by Henry David Thoreau

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2009 8:24 AM | Add Comment

The poetry of Velimir Khlebnikov

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2009 8:13 AM | Add Comment

The credit crunch tent city has returned to haunt America

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2009 7:53 AM | Add Comment

The dolphin who made friends with a curious tiger: Akaasha and Mavrick

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2009 7:47 AM | Add Comment

Photos: ballet dancers perform Tschaikovsky's Serenade based on a choreography by George Balanchine in Budapest's State Opera

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2009 7:34 AM | Add Comment

Banking meltdown drags Iceland into recession: "The Icelandic dream is a busted flush never to return"

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2009 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Iran, Hamas defend wanted Sudanese president, sending a delegation to show support; marching supporters declare "With our blood and soul, we defend you, al-Bashir"

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2009 7:15 AM | Add Comment

Incredible Kazakh painting: "Tagenova, Kultegin Art Salon" (Blue girl with horse)

Posted by kluciole at 3/5/2009 2:08 PM | Add Comment

Earliest domesticated horses dated 5,500 years ago in Kazakhstan (the Botai culture)

Posted by kluciole at 3/5/2009 1:51 PM | Add Comment

Gorbachev likens Putin's party to the worst of the communists, and said Russia is today a country where the parliament and the judiciary are not fully free

Posted by kluciole at 3/5/2009 1:47 PM | Add Comment

Eagle survives crash through truck windshield

Posted by kluciole at 3/5/2009 9:28 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an adult Matschie's tree kangaroo sits in the newly created YUS Conservation Area of Papua New Guinea

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 3:17 PM | Add Comment

The poetry of Nazim Hikmet

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 2:51 PM | Add Comment

Hubble captures cosmic tug-of-war between three turbulent galaxies

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 2:46 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a woman holds a fan with solar panels, created by Spanish designer Elena Corchero, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 2:42 PM | Add Comment

One of my favorite movies: "The Girl in the Café" starring Bill Nighy and Kelly Macdonald. Synopsis, photos, and video clips here...

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 2:18 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Buddy the cat sits upright, surveying the snow around his house in North Haven, Conn.

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 2:15 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press contributor and author Kurt Kamm. Warning: very emotional. FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -68- TRAGEDY

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 2:10 PM | Add Comment

NASA set to launch first mission to find Earth-like worlds. The craft is named after 17th-century German scientist Johanes Kepler

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 4:21 AM | Add Comment

Poem: excerpt from "Days I enjoy" by Victoria Sackville-West

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 4:09 AM | Add Comment

Videos: BBC's "The Virgin Queen" soundtrack, first song. Top video is better quality, second video has the lyrics...

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 3:59 AM | Add Comment

Khadambi Asalache's bequest to the National Trust (in Britain). The eldest son of a Kenyan chieftain, he trained as an architect, became a poet and eventually worked as a civil servant at the Treasury

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 3:50 AM | Add Comment

Shelved - did Kremlin make my Stalin book disappear? Historian Orlando Figes claims publisher of book about life in Russia under Stalin has bowed to 'political pressure'

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 3:44 AM | Add Comment

Japan now has so many people over 100 that it's cutting costs by reducing the size of silver cups it presents to those who reach that age

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 3:35 AM | Add Comment

Overexposed: Medical imaging tests boost U.S. radiation dose

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