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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for July 2009

Photo: the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A

A fantastic poem from Julie Hill Alger: "Lesson 1"

Photo: Light projections illuminate Kent's Great Tower of Dover Castle

'Suicide' Genes Help Slow Ovarian Tumor Growth in Mice

The high price one island is paying because of movie-obsessed tourists: "Mamma Mia! How the feelgood movie has ruined the Greek paradise island of Skopelos"

Will volcano Anak Karakatoa - 'Child of Krakatoa' - rock the world again? In 1883 it killed over 36,000 people and changed the weather for five years

Photo: a girl poses in front of a large model of the sun at an exhibition in the Gasometer museum in Oberhausen

Bauhaus anniversary show draws many visitors

Incredible watercolor paintings by Keiron Williamson, a boy who is only 6 years of age

Australian dog Muffy found 9 years after going missing, 1,200 miles away

Photo: a pelican suns itself at Schoenbrunn Zoo, Vienna

Poem: Julie Hill Alger, "Pictures of Home"

Newfound bird, the Bare-faced Bulbul, is "the only known bald songbird in mainland Asia"

(3 articles) Sudanese journalist Lubna al-Hussein facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers; ten other women were lashed 10 times

Four hundred year long warm spell helped the ancient Incas reach dizzying heights of civilization: "as the treeline moved higher up the mountains, the Incas redeveloped the landscape to increase productivity"

Mila the Beluga whale saved stricken diver Yang Yun's life by pushing her to the surface when her legs became too cramped to swim

Follow-up to previous post: How to get a signed copy of Scott Wannberg's new book, strange movie full of death

Follow-up to previously posted topic: "With spellbinding charm, estate agent Carla Calamity wins £50,000 job as Wookey Hole witch"

Animal activists vow to up campaign against Australian mulesing (the practice of cutting a slice of flesh from a sheep's rump to prevent the animal dying of flystrike)

From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm's series: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -130- RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

Photo: the newly discovered Soap Bubble Nebula has generated enormous excitement among astronomers

International cancer experts move tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into top cancer risk category, deeming them as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas

Photo: a mosaic of NASA satellite images gives the most detailed true-color image of the Earth ever created

3,000 burros to bear burden of Afghan ballots

New film version of "Rats of NIMH" in works

Oldest Animal Fossils Found in Lakes, Not Oceans

Annual crowning of a goat as "King of Ireland" at one of the country's oldest fairs, Puck Fair, runs into trouble as paperwork problems may prevent the heir from traveling to the festival

Sorry for the delay in posting this; Scott Wannberg's new book -- strange movie full of death -- is now available for purchase at Perceval Press!

Polar bears Reiko and Yukio at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, with some frozen treats

UN chief discusses climate change in Mongolia; his visit highlights the risks posed by desertification (expanding deserts) to one third of the world's population (2 billion people)

Glorious galaxy with an eye and spiralling spokes spotted 50 million light years away by Spitzer Space telescope

Photo: Umka, the 65-day-old Ussuri tiger cub, is seen in a zoo in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent

The art of a recession: Gallery owners struggling

Back from the brink: Clouded leopards feared extinct found in Bangladesh for first time in 20 years

Nearly extinct California rare mountain yellow-legged frog rediscovered

From Luciole Press contributor/author Kurt Kamm's ongoing series: WORDS OF FIREFIGHTERS -126- “I HAVE ARRIVED”

Photo: a moon rock brought to Earth in 1969 was taken to the International Space Station to mark the 40th anniversary of the historic first Moon landing

Message from Luciole Press Editor/Publisher Karen

Agent Orange linked to heart disease, Parkinson's

Photo: the solar eclipse silhouettes birds surrounding a minaret of a shrine in Pakistan

Photo: a chameleon clings to a tree stump during rains on the outskirts of Ahmedabad

(Photo) Eclipse tourists: Visitors stargaze at a campsite on Japan's southern island of Amami Oshima

Earthquake could unleash devastating tsunami along west coast of America, scientists warn

Popular San Diego seals win reprieve from governor

Photo: a female giant panda cub (born to Li Li) is seen in an incubator in Chengdu, China

Comet smashes hole in Jupiter the size of Earth... and is spotted by Australian amateur stargazer Anthony Wesley

Photo: Yosemite's Half Dome at sunset

Poem: John Masefield, "A Ballad of John Silver"

Giant squids terrorize Californian coast: "Divers spooked by tales of assaults as swarms of aggressive jumbo flying squid invade the shallows off San Diego"

2 articles: "Wednesday's solar eclipse pits superstition against science" and "China gears up for longest solar eclipse of the century (6 minutes and 39 seconds of darkness)"

Photo: a female zebra calf stands next to her mother at Erfurt zoo, central Germany

Poem: Anne Sexton, "Admonitions To A Special Person"

Shark attack victims fight for their attackers, lobbying Congress for greater protection ("some 70 million sharks die in the ocean each year")

Beautiful photo: People walk on Duomo Square under stormy skies in Milan

Three people missing after two homes plunge over cliff into old mineshaft during a landslide in Nachterstedt, Germany

California sprouts marijuana 'green rush'

Photo: evening view of the 1,000-year-old Potala Palace - the world's highest - in Lhasa, Tibet

Poem: Willa Cather's "The Hawthorn Tree"

Hot dogs are dangerous: Oscar Mayer Wienermobile crashes into Wisconsin home

Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine

Photo: lightning illuminates the sky during a thunderstorm over the Swiss Federal Palace in Bern

Powerful Iranian cleric Rafsanjani says country in crisis

Photo: Egyptian whirling dervishes perform at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt

California artist Robert Buelteman "sends 80,000 volts through flowery subjects and then literally paints photographs of the outcome"

Chechnyan human rights activist Natalia Estemirova's murder sparks international outrage

FDA probes heart problems with asthma drug Xolair

Engineer/photographer Patrick Koster travels the world capturing images of the world's volcanoes

Photo: one-month-old Siberian husky sled puppies in the snow in Wiltondale, Newfoundland

Frank McCourt (author of Angele'a Ashes) is gravely ill with meningitis, brother says

Photo: a rainbow across a fountain on the South Bank by the River Thames

Free weekend at national parks, July 18-19

Photo: a peacock butterfly in a garden in Hohen Neuendorf, near Berlin

"Everyone is your enemy" -- Israeli soldiers describe "Moral Twilight Zone" in which Palestinian civilians in Gaza were used as human shields, and more

Photo: Kelly Slater surfing in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa

Photo: osprey chicks in the Kielder Forest in Northumberland

Follow-up on previously featured topic: "Meet Spud, the bald hedgehog whose spines are making a dramatic comeback"

Photo: the sun shines down 42nd Street in New York City at sunset during the biannual occurrence named "Manhattanhenge" on July 12

What my cat already knew: "Cats Do Control Humans, Study Finds"

From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -123 - WASTING MY TIME??

Super-slow-motion pictures show soap bubble bursting in stunning detail

Another photo of a spectacular lightning storm over Montevideo, Uruguay

The astonishing Omega Nebula -- the star-making machine of the Milky Way

Women ski jumpers can't compete in 2010; Canadian judge rejects bid by jumpers to compete in next year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, but agreed they were being discriminated against

Photo: lava cascades down the Mayon volcano in the Philippines

Wadsworth Church built on faith, freedom, poetry

Fast-growing kelp "Undaria pinnatifida" invades San Francisco Bay

Talks intensify over closing California's $26B deficit

Incredible photographs (and article) about sharks -- "Up close, the last thing many fish will ever see"

Photo: Sri Lankan fishermen, known locally as stick fishermen, sit perched on stilts fixed into the ocean floor as they fish

Muslim women lead protests in restive west China

NASA image shows part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86

Photo: people watch a fireworks display during the 'Pyromusikale' festival in Berlin

Photo: a seal pup eats a herring in Friedrichskoog in the North Sea

Still image from animated movie "Fatenah," which tells the story of a Gazan woman who battles against breast cancer, with inept Palestinian doctors and indifferent Israeli soldiers

International study claims 1 in 3 breast cancer patients overtreated

Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow

Photo: Brazilian artists hang out at a 'vertical house' built on a climbing wall in Rio de Janeiro

Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault

Free the lobsters! Photo of two extremely rare orange-yellow 'one-in-30 million' lobsters (Maine)

Reviews of artist Elizabeth Peyton's show at Whitechapel Gallery, London