Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for May 2009

The story of Louis Sockalexis, Penobscot, first American Indian major league baseball player. The Cleveland Indians based their logo and game antics on Sockalexis

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Washington Redskins win legal victory in 17-year fight with group of American Indians who contend the football team's trademark is racially offensive

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Photo: a drummer of the Household Cavalry Mounted Band performs in heavy rain at the Windsor Castle Roal Tattoo

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Scared Somalis running out of food as battles rage: "concern that the government might fall is mounting"

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Photo: a long-eared Jerboa eats steamed bread near Huoyanshan, also known as the Mountain of Flames

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Photo: the stars come out for a time exposure in the Lower Yubeng village, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

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Poems by Paul Verlaine, including an analysis of "Art of Poetry"

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Photo: an artist dressed in a bunny costume walks the streets of New York City, wearing a sign stating "unemployed will take any job"

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Monkeys Ponder What Could Have Been

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Photo: an Indonesian worker holds sea turtle hatchlings in Bali, before conference discussing links between oceans and climate change

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Michelangelo's painting, "The Torment of Saint Anthony," will be displayed at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth

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Peru to sack 'scandalous' gays from police force

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From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press friend/contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -99- BOMB SQUAD

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David Hockney's 'Desperate Housewives' painting sells for record-breaking price

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TIME article: Suu Kyi Faces Jail After Visit From Uninvited American

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Photo: the top of a dandelion seed head is seen shining in the morning light in Marysville, Pennsylvania

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2009 4:43 PM | Add Comment

Furthering the trend of infantilizing women in the fashion industry: just carry around a doll to make you feel younger and a scale to keep you skinny! Photos: designers Emma Milikins and Miss Unkon, at Rosemount Fashion Festival

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2009 4:40 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the entrance of a tunnel at the Saint Gotthard mountain pass road in the Swiss Alps

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Landmark ruling by the Malaysian courts grants indigenous tribes land rights that could help them stop deforestation and expansion of palm oil plantations on their traditional terrains

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Photos: displaced families at the refugee camp in Mardan, Pakistan

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Providence mayor wants to tax college students $150-per-semester; if enacted, it "would be first time U.S. students taxed just for being enrolled"

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2009 3:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a cat tosses a mouse into the air in Kentucky... but upon hitting the ground, the mouse made a quick escape

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Poem: "Song Of Proserpine" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, plus the mythology and art of Persephone (the Greek equivalent of Proserpine... I vigorously studied and loved the Greek myths as a child)

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Space junk raises risks for Hubble repair mission

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Photos of space shuttle Atlantis lifting off into space

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Bravo to the kind firemen who spent two hours to get this mare (Penny) free from mud that she sunk neck-deep into

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Photo: seagulls being fed on the Thames at Hammersmith

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Irish student hoaxes world's media with florid but phony quote from dead French composer on Wikipedia, which "flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India"

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2009 12:36 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a crow sits on a sunflower in a field at Chunni Village, Punjab, India

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2009 4:18 PM | Add Comment

My cat's second favorite poem by Pablo Neruda: "Cat's Dream"

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Muslim nations 'would recognise Israel' in peace deal: "US is putting together sweeping package, says King Abdullah of Jordan, warning of war within 18 months if talks don't progress"

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Photo: the Hubble space telescope has captured a searing pulse of light from an exploding star racing across the vast interstellar void of deep space

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Fox cub survives two weeks caught in a trap because his mother kept bringing him food

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One of mine and my mother's favorites: wisteria! This patch is 100-years-old

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From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor/friend Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -97- ADEQUATE TRAINING?

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TIME article -- "Roxana Saberi: Out of Iranian Prison, Into a Soap Opera"

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Photo: Sun and wind create a striking ear-like cloud formation over the desert in Western Argentina near Patagonia

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Facebook won’t ban Holocaust denial groups

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NASA Approves Partial Privatization of the Space Program

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I adore frogs! And now, 200 new amphibian species have been discovered in Madagascar

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2009 10:56 AM | Add Comment

Quote from Henry Miller

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Video: Eva La Yerbabuena, flamenco dancer

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Happy Mother's Day to all who nurture .... Photo: baby giraffe Margaret Abigail getting a nuzzle from her mother, Margaret Sukari, at the Bronx Zoo's African Plains

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Dick Cheney states he'd rather follow firebrand broadcaster Rush Limbaugh than former Joint Chiefs chairman Colin Powell into political battle over the future of the Republican Party

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2009 10:48 AM | Add Comment

Photos: a baby black jaguar with its mother, Venus, at the Park of the Legends zoo in Lima, Peru

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Concern over burns on Afghans caught in battle; investigations into white phosphorus attack

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2009 10:21 AM | Add Comment

Exxon begins drilling at Point Thomson in Alaska

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More on one of my favorite poets, previously featured Rosalía de Castro: book excerpt about her work, another bio, and poem "Margarita" (Spanish version and best English translation I can find)

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2009 9:08 AM | Add Comment

I love both cats and parakeets/budgies, and laughed when I saw these photos. Hope they make you smile too: "The moment sleeping kitten is pecked awake by cheeky budgie who wants to play"

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2009 7:57 AM | Add Comment

Conservation effort targets Montana hotel guests

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From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor/friend, Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -95- CUTTING (FIRE)LINE

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Nice going, mom! Right whales break birth record: 39 calves born along the Florida and Georgia coasts

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2009 7:35 AM | Add Comment

Happy Birthday to the incredible Diana Bonebrake! (May 10th). Here is a poem by S.A. Griffin, "Diana Queen of the Angels," and a link to the tribute page for Diana's bday :)

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2009 7:23 AM | Add Comment

A poem by previously featured poet Antonio Machado, "Fields of Soria"

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2009 11:55 PM | Add Comment

Obama administration declares it will stick with a Bush-era policy against expanding protection for climate-threatened polar bears, and ruled out a broad new attack on greenhouse gases

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2009 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the buprestid, a rare and protected type of beetle (South Korea)

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Amazon's new supersize eReader touted as future of the printed word: "the publishing industry is likely to embrace the technology because it allows not just content to be displayed, but also adverts"

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2009 11:21 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an endangered Tecolotito Sabanero (owl) at the Nicaraguan National Zoo

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Poem:Katharine Tynan, "Any Woman"

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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

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Video: The making of a Hubble image

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Horse trader convicted of mistreating 140 horses, ponies and donkeys in Britain's worst cruelty case

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An in-depth article on a previously featured topic: "Is this Nefertiti – or a 100-year-old fake?"

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2009 11:16 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a Brazilian Indian tied to a cross as 1,000 protesters camped outside parliament in Brasilia demanded more rights over land, mining and water

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Powerful winds during a night in which "all hell broke loose" have pushed a raging wildfire to the doorstep of Santa Barbara; 20,000 evacuated

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Photo: a rainbow is seen behind the statue of Justice outside the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasilia

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Photo: a Bulgarian group performs at the first night of the International Theatre Festival in Skopje, Macedonia

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2009 1:35 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Omololá Ijeoma Ògúnyemí, "WHISPERS"

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Hubble's 'deep-field' view offers a glimpse of the Universe from 13 billion years ago

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2009 1:08 AM | Add Comment

Spanish man who sought treatment for rash was locked in mental ward by doctors concerned he had contracted deadly flu on holiday in Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2009 11:52 PM | Add Comment

Thomas Jefferson's retirement retreat restored

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Hidden Auschwitz message hailed as rare find -- prisoners placed a note in a bottle 65 years ago: "We did it so a sign of us would remain after we died"

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Another poem by Gabriela Mistral, "The Rose"

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2009 2:13 AM | Add Comment

Russian prosecutors initiate criminal investigation into the use of helicopters to hunt endangered goats by senior officials (there are only 200 Argali goats left in Russia)

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2009 2:09 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Sweden-bound 16-month-old polar bear Wilbaer (and his mother Corinna at Wilhelma zoo, Stuttgart)

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Organized criminal gangs have exploited a children's home beside Heathrow airport for the systematic trafficking of Chinese children to work in prostitution and the drugs trade across Britain

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2009 1:21 AM | Add Comment

We have a comment from a person writing for publishing agent PFD, hoping to contact Jan Griffiths over earlier story about Sophie Tucker, the Australian dog who survived the wilds (Anyone know contact info?)

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2009 12:56 AM | Add Comment

Photo: two women stand inside a replica of the human intestine in Dresden (this one looks like a colon suffering from polyps)

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2009 11:35 AM | Add Comment

On May 5, Mexican dominance irks other Latinos: "It is important for each group to have its own space (while we) work toward the well-being of all of us"

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Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin claims Nefertiti bust is not 3,400 years old, but a copy dating from 1912

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Swimming into view from 25 million light years away, the Whale Galaxy

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2009 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Photos: South Korean dancers perform a traditional dance - "Palilmu" - during a memorial service called Jongmyo Jerye

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2009 9:58 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by Luciole Press contributor, author Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -93- MENTORING

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Photo: a newborn brown bear enjoys the sunshine in the Attica Zoological Park, on the outskirts of Athens, Greece

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2009 1:17 PM | Add Comment

Gabriela Mistral: first Chilean and first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; here is a bio and two of her poems -- "I am Not Alone" and "The Stranger"

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2009 12:46 PM | Add Comment

Actor Robert Duvall enters battle against plans to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter near a Virginia Civil War battlefield

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Photo: two-year-old Gerardo Torres wears a face mask outside a hospital in Tijuana, Mexico

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Afghan President Karzai "chooses powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates"

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2009 12:32 PM | Add Comment

Photo: gorgeous horse in the Kalahari Desert, taken by Rudi Jeggle

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2009 11:25 PM | Add Comment

Videos: Brendan Perry's "Utopia", using rich imagery from the movie "The Fountain" (whose trailer appears below)

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2009 11:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo: fishermen row their boats to catch fish in river Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2009 11:14 PM | Add Comment

Wolves no longer protected in Northern Rockies

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Harrowing cross-examination of four-year-old rape victim sparks demands for overhaul of British court system

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Poem by Luciole's magnifico friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "the day the german kid came into dutton's looking for my sweet charlie"

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2009 7:33 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a villager holding umbrella to protect himself from sun on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India

Posted by kluciole at 5/2/2009 6:24 PM | Add Comment

Outrage as Iran executes Delara Darabi; "a rushed execution - disregarding a stay-of-execution and allegedly without informing her lawyer"

Posted by kluciole at 5/2/2009 6:14 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Google Earth faces backlash for posting old Japanese maps "detailing the locations of former low-caste communities (burakumin)"

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