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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for June 2009

Dramatic photos/article: Seal pup narrowly escapes killer whale in Patagonia

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2009 4:30 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Just saw the interesting silent film "The Cheat" (1915, re-released in 1918)

Posted by kluciole at 6/30/2009 4:19 AM | Add Comment

Australian scientists kill cancer cells with "trojan horse"

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Great Lakes wolves returning to endangered list

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Photo: a massive blanket of ominous rain clouds packs the sky over Bangkok

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One of my favorites: Eudora Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O."

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2009 8:05 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Dethroned Nepal king's palace now a tourist haunt

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2009 7:52 PM | Add Comment

Forgotten evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace lives in Darwin's shadow

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1,600-year-old icon of Saint Paul found in a Roman tomb

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Photo: a large waterspout forms above the St. Johns River in Jacksonville

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So sorry to be behind in posting this info: One more day of The Riverwood Poetry Festival! Includes Luciole Press friends/contributors S.A. Griffin, Scott Wannberg and David Smith!

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2009 9:27 PM | Add Comment

Another poem from previously featured poet Nizar Qabbani: "Love Compared"

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Scientists capture first image (at cellular level) of a memory being made

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Thai elephants painted to look like pandas because country not paying attention to them (these poor elephants do not look happy)

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From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -115- FINDING A PULSE

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2009 2:04 AM | Add Comment

Photo: plaster casts of victims caught in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, displayed at Melbourne Museum

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Poem: Louise Glück, "The Wild Iris"

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2009 3:01 AM | Add Comment

Photo/article: a stingray takes flight from a hungry killer whale, leaping out of the water as the orca swims below

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2009 6:46 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Surprise: Fish in acidic waters grow bigger ears ... (fish ears are inside their bodies)

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2009 6:38 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a sand sculpture of an iguana in Puerto Vallarta

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2009 6:32 PM | Add Comment

Just have to post about this extemely cute little guy: three-legged kitten named Tripod survives injury, is now recovered and looking for a home

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2009 6:10 PM | Add Comment

Family of Neda 'forced to flee home' by Iranian officials; uncomfirmed reports claim Zahra Rahnavard, wife of Mousavi, has been arrested

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2009 6:07 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a complex convective 'dragon storm' in Saturn's southern hemisphere

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:38 PM | Add Comment

I have just received the new chap from Rose of Sharon Press (publisher S.A. Griffin): "Let Everybody Come In" by Scott Wannberg. I love it very much!

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:22 PM | Add Comment

Caverns of salt water may lie beneath frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Enceladus

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:15 PM | Add Comment

Third of open ocean sharks face extinction

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Iranian women at forefront of the country's opposition movement

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Archaeologists discover water well in Cyprus, built as long as 10,500 years ago, with skeleton of young woman at the bottom of it

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 9:23 AM | Add Comment

Britain replaces USA as Iran's verbal target: "The British role as former colonial masters makes them easy targets"

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 9:15 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a boy admires the various fish at the aquarium in Beijing

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 9:11 AM | Add Comment

Doctor in dramatic South Pole rescue dies at 57. Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald's cancer had been in remission until it returned in August 2005

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 9:06 AM | Add Comment

Politico: Clinton toils in the shadows

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 9:00 AM | Add Comment

From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm's ongoing seires: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -114- THE FLAME INSIDE

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 8:58 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a colorful King Vulture is pictured at the National Zoo in Managua, Nicaragua

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 9:46 PM | Add Comment

Alarm at rising rate of female canings in Bangladesh

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 9:40 PM | Add Comment

Dead Sea peril: sinkholes swallow up the unwary

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 9:35 PM | Add Comment

US docs save white phosphorus burn victim Razia, 8, a victim of the Afghan war (when taken to the medical facility, her oxygen mask melted on her face and flames lept out when doctors scraped away dead tissue)

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 9:24 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Photo: a sculpture made of traffic barrels by Joseph Carnevale in Raleigh, N.C.

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 6:36 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Dave the cat spent a week with an crossbow bolt (arrow) lodged in his body, but is recovering

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 6:26 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Articles on Iran: "Obama condemns violence against Iran protesters" -- "How the west built Iran's 'lawful intercept functionality'" -- TIME article about Neda

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 6:08 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: lava from Kilauea cascades into the sea at Waikupunaha

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2009 7:03 PM | Add Comment

Fantastic news from Luciole Press friends and contributors S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg! Just published -- "New chap: Let Everybody Come In by Scott Wannberg!"

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2009 6:47 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press friend and contributer Geraldine Green will be at the 2009 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Woodyfest Poets in Okemah, OK, on July 11th

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2009 6:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: an albino baby turtle swims with green sea babies turtle in a pond at Khram island

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2009 6:36 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: NASA image of the Pleiades star cluster

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2009 2:44 AM | Add Comment

Great white serial killers: "sharks target victims in the same way as psychopaths"

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Graphic by Mark Hartenbach of S.A. Griffin. Read contributor/friend S.A.'s essay on his page at Luciole Press

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:33 PM | Add Comment

Pets Pass Superbug MRSA to Humans

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:30 PM | Add Comment

Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:26 PM | Add Comment

Photos: hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims trek through treacherous mountains in revolt-torn Kashmir each year to reach the holy cave of Lord Shiva in Amarnath

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

Vt. farmers cut cows' carbon emissions by altering diets

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: grave markers silhouetted by the swirling cloud of a severe thunderstorm as it passes over rural cemetery in Kansas

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:09 PM | Add Comment

Articles: "Iran opposition leader vows to stand by protesters" and "Iran on the brink: Leadership begins to split in wake of bloody riots"

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:08 PM | Add Comment

Update (previously covered topic on Luciole): Important video of hope, plus articles: "An apathetic, greedy west has abandoned war-torn Congo" -- "UN urges DR Congo to empower women in fight against rape" and "The War on Women"

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 8:11 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Happy Summer Solstice! -- (unrelated) Photo: image of the moon taken by the Galileo spacecraft

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Another poem from Delmira Agustini: "El Poeta Leva el Ancla/Weighing the Anchor"

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 12:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Articles and videos: "Iran tense after police, protesters clash" (video: "Poem for the Rooftops of Iran")

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 11:38 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The blues are back: Butterfly species reborn 30 years after ‘extinction’

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 11:30 PM | Add Comment

California girl (10-year-old Colby Curtin) gets dying wish to see movie 'Up'

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 11:21 PM | Add Comment

Poet francEyE's memorial will be June 21st at 1 pm at the church in Ocean Park

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 11:20 PM | Add Comment

Happy Father's Day to all. From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm's series: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -112- PROUD FATHER

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 11:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo and article: 'Noctilucent' or 'night-shining' clouds

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 3:05 AM | Add Comment

New images show evidence of ancient Martian lake

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2 articles: "Australia threatens Japan with whaling legal action" and "Japan, Norway wasting millions on whaling: WWF"

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 2:15 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

New Acropolis Museum to open with lavish party

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Art 'in its own glory' in bigger Cleveland museum

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New articles on Iran: "Iran warns opposition against staging street rally" -- TIME article: "Could Khameini's Ominous Sermon Be a Turning Point?" -- and articles about the Basij militia

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 2:00 AM | Add Comment

Photos: fishermen row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake, and water gushing out from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 1:58 AM | Add Comment

Photo: "This is not my happy look" ... a not-amused cougar in a zoo

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2009 2:46 AM | Add Comment

High court says convicts lack right to DNA testing

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2009 2:43 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Five-week-old Amur tiger cubs play with each other at the Highland Wildlife Park

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2009 2:36 AM | Add Comment

Articles about Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei's speech, and "US has limited inroads to understanding Iran"

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2009 2:16 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a red squirrel jumps from a branch in Kielder Forest in Northumberland

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2009 2:22 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

TIME article: Can the U.S. Government Afford to Let California Fail?

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2009 2:19 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

2 articles -- TIME article: "10 Days in Tehran: What I Saw At the Iranian Revolution" and "Thousands of black-clad protesters turn out for Iran's Day Of Mourning in rally set to be biggest to date"

Posted by kluciole at 6/18/2009 2:08 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: example of crepuscular rays (through clouds) over the west coast of Levkas, Greece

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2009 5:32 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: "Soccer Protest: Iran's Players Show Support for Mousavi"

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2009 5:25 PM | Add Comment

EPA declares health emergency in Libby, Montana

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2009 5:04 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -111- AN EMT'S TEARS

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2009 5:02 PM | Add Comment

Picture of terrifying fall of Faith Cook and her horse Nagor De La Roche at the Bramham Horse Trials

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:53 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Another poem from previously featured poet Delmira Agustini: "El Nudo" ("The Knot")

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:43 PM | Add Comment

One more article: Iran's "Twitter Revolution" -- "Web's amazing role in Iran (Social networking sites like Twitter are changing the rules of political protest)"

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:31 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a child is silhouetted as he plays along the halls displaying names of fallen soldiers from World War II, inside the Manila American cemetery

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:27 PM | Add Comment

FDA says Zicam nasal gel and related products can permanently damage the sense of smell

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:19 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: Cyclists pedal next to the lake of Annecy, French Alps

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:17 PM | Add Comment

Articles: "Iran regime faces public anger: will it survive?" and "Iran bans foreign press as rival Ahmadinejad and Mousavi supporters hit the streets"

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 1:55 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: two 25-day-old rare peregrine falcon chicks at the Kielder Forest Northumberland, U.K.

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 1:49 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Ouch! A momma duck steps on one of her little babies (he seems to be ok, though)

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2009 7:07 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Indiana soldier Nathan Harlan to auction rare piece of history: a copy of "The Federalist," a 1788 book of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution (which Harlan bought for $7)

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2009 6:58 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Why your tap has more germs than your toilet handle

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2009 6:56 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Future scientists may be able to fight lung cancer using gene therapy delivered by an inhalable spray

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Articles and photos: "Speed of Iran vote count called suspicious; 300,000 Mousavi supporters take to the streets in protest"

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2009 6:32 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: performer from the National China Beijing Opera Theatre (Li Haiyan), preparing backstage before dress rehearsal

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2009 6:29 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Aurora, a 20-year-old Beluga whale, birthing a calf at the Vancouver Aquarium

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 9:29 PM | Add Comment

Article: Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier (in Los Glaciares National Park) is advancing despite global warming ... (plus, lots of beautiful photos)

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 9:18 PM | Add Comment

PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian health care needs unmet (read the story of 5-year-old Ta'Shon Rain Little Light, who died after her cancer was misdiagnosed as depression)

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 12:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: entwined trees in Madagascar -- "Les baobabs amoureux"

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 6:45 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Louise Bogan, "The Crossed Apple"

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 6:40 AM | Add Comment

An article about tennis champion Rafael Nadal (check out a really lovely article about him in this month's issue of Vogue)

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 6:30 AM | Add Comment

Ovarian Cancer Breakthrough Heralds New Era of Treatment (rare granulosa cell tumors occur with a single mutation out of 3 billion nucleotide pairs)

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 6:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment
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