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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for August 2009

Photo: a girl wearing face paint smiles at the Bhaktivedanta Manor Krishna Temple, dressed to celebrate 'Janmashtami' - the birth of Lord Krishna

Posted by kluciole at 8/31/2009 2:03 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms

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Wildfire makes menacing advance near Los Angeles

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Looks like an astronaut.... photo: an ice sculpture carved in the image of a child, made from water taken from the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, in China

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2009 1:32 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a horse runs from flames, as fire burns around it during the Station Fire in the Big Tujunga area of Los Angeles

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2009 1:28 PM | Add Comment

Nepal villagers on climate change frontline

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Colon Cancer Stopped in Its Tracks in Swiss Study

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The story of Violette Szabó, Special Operations agent during WWII

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Visiting the Maginot Line: Relic of World War II

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TIME article: The Battle in Uganda Over Female Condoms

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Photos: this heron swooped down to a koi pond and "grabbed lunch"

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Lavish burial site discovered in the ancient seat of Macedonian kings in northern Greece is "heightening a 2,300-year-old mystery of murder and political intrigue"

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

France faces reality of toxic beaches after a horse and rider were sucked into noxious black sludge on a beach in Brittany (the horse died)

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 10:06 PM | Add Comment

St Kilda: the edge of the world (the most remote island group in Britain has seen visitors like Samuel Johnson)

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 9:56 PM | Add Comment

Art world casts doubt on authenticity of Picasso painting stolen from Kuwait and found in Iraq

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 9:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: tenor Bjoern Christian Kuhn in the role of Edgar Allan Poe on stage in Halle, Germany

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 9:45 PM | Add Comment

"The Vale of York Viking Hoard" -- Viking silver treasure unearthed after 1,000 years

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 10:17 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a rainbow appears behind grazing horses at the Avalon Therapeutic Equestrian Center in the town of Ixonia

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 10:15 AM | Add Comment

Dutch courts delay 13-year-old sailor Laura Dekker's worldwide trip

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 10:11 AM | Add Comment

Dog owner survives quicksand horror thanks to Matilda, her quick-thinking German pointer

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 10:06 AM | Add Comment

Britain's rarest cat: Eddie the male tortoiseshell kitten

Posted by kluciole at 8/27/2009 9:51 AM | Add Comment

Suicidal planet seems on death spiral into star WASP-18

Posted by kluciole at 8/27/2009 9:45 AM | Add Comment

McCain speaks with angry crowd at Ariz. town hall: "one man pointed at him and asked the senator why he deserves a better health care plan (than the rest of us)"

Posted by kluciole at 8/27/2009 9:38 AM | Add Comment

Photo: lightning and storms in the night sky behind Space shuttle Discovery

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2009 10:48 AM | Add Comment

Find Anne of Green Gables (and Lucy Maud Montgomery) on Prince Edward Island

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2009 10:45 AM | Add Comment

China moves to cut use of executed inmates' organs

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2009 10:39 AM | Add Comment

NYC's 'skinniest' house has fat price tag: $2.7M -- the house is 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2009 10:34 AM | Add Comment

RIP. TIME article: "The Death of Ted Kennedy: The Brother Who Mattered Most" and second article, "'Heartbroken' Obama leads tributes to 'the greatest U.S senator of our time'"

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2009 10:14 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Antelope Canyon... the Diné (Navajo) name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse' bighanilini, which means 'the place where water runs through rocks'

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2009 9:24 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Places and Men" by William Allingham, a colleague of Rossetti, Millais, Tennyson, and more

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2009 9:10 AM | Add Comment

Kangaroos can be a deadly Aussie road menace

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2009 8:53 AM | Add Comment

Photo: flames on the mount of Kitheronas west of Athens after wildfires tore across Greece

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2009 8:50 AM | Add Comment

Obese People Have 'Severe Brain Degeneration'

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2009 8:46 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a woman walks among sunflowers at an annual festival in Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2009 8:40 AM | Add Comment

Majority of Americans Believe Health Care Reform 'Myths'

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2009 8:39 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a man feeds a seagull, who is silhouetted against the sunset near Kavala city, and Thassos island, Greece

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2009 11:36 AM | Add Comment

Young Obama backers AWOL from health care fight: "(they) are young, feeling indestructible and not all that into what they see as an old folks issue" ... (let's hope that is not how everyone feels)

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2009 11:32 AM | Add Comment

The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2009 11:26 AM | Add Comment

Exhausted Greek crews battle on against fires

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2009 11:20 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a Reddish Egret, whose apparently erratic behaviour is designed to confuse fish

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 7:37 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Machine" by Michael Donaghy

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Photo: people watch as water breaches a rock wall at Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 7:25 PM | Add Comment

"His Name Might Be Tommy" -- a message from NativeProgress.org. Please donate what you can for the children at the General Beadle Community School!

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 7:19 PM | Add Comment

Just received David Smith's wonderful new book -- White Time -- for which I happily wrote a blurb. Available at Off Beat Pulp

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 6:17 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Photo: Modern Monet. A woman takes pictures of red and yellow cosmos in the field at Hamarikyu Park in Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 2:37 AM | Add Comment

History: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" at the Seneca Falls Convention

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 2:15 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: Medvedev's War on Russians' Love for Alcohol -- "every man, woman and child consumes the equivalent of 4.8 gallons of pure rubbing alcohol per year"

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 1:59 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a reveler holds a torch while participating in the "Correfoc" (Run with fire) party in Barcelona

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 1:57 AM | Add Comment

Widely accepted argument against government medical plan is that it would quash competition — just what private insurers seem to be doing themselves in many parts of the U.S.

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 1:47 AM | Add Comment

Fires reach Athens suburbs, thousands evacuated

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 1:40 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an actual human brain displayed inside a glass box in Brazil, part of an interactive exhibition entitled "Brain: a world inside your head"

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 1:37 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a flying frog (Rhacophorus suffry) in Assam, India

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2009 12:37 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "Memento"

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2009 12:25 AM | Add Comment

Spain's Catholic Church has new advice for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela: "For the sake of the H1N1 virus/swine flu, don't kiss the saint"

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2009 12:18 AM | Add Comment

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and key members of his cabinet dine on seal ribs and liver in defense of seal hunting

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Brice Marden's $3 million painting "Au Centre" destroyed in transit

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2009 11:59 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photos: Tamarin monkey twins Lara and Lucy at the Denver Zoo. They were orphaned at the age of 3 weeks, when their mother died of cancer

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2009 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Mambo, a dog who was covered in gas, set on fire and left for dead, will face his torturers in court

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2009 11:44 PM | Add Comment

Incredible images from the TV show "Big Cat Diary"

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2009 12:35 AM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Poem: "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2009 12:27 AM | Add Comment

Video: Acoustic version of Brandi Carlile's "The Story" at Mississippi Studios, Portland, Oregon

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2009 12:19 AM | Add Comment

Scientists make "sugar bug" drug for bowel disease

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2009 12:01 AM | Add Comment

Walk in circles? It's natural, says German study

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2009 11:57 PM | Add Comment

Art: Monsters climbing through the floors, magic carpet rides through fantastical cities, and more from street painter Kurt Wenner

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2009 9:53 AM | Add Comment

Kenyan police: Arrest in death of Scottish geologist Campbell Bridges, who was attacked "by men armed with arrows, spears and machetes, in an apparent dispute over mining rights"

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2009 9:46 AM | Add Comment

Photo: satellite image shows Hurricane Bill, the first Atlantic storm of the season

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2009 10:22 AM | Add Comment

Afghan media refuse to censor election reporting

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2009 10:02 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a foal walks with his mother in the western Turkish town of Karacabey

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2009 7:40 AM | Add Comment

Rep. Frank lashes out at protester holding poster depicting President Barack Obama with Hitler-style mustache: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?"

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2009 7:35 AM | Add Comment

Any readers in England that can adopt some very lovely kitties? "Crisis at rescue centre as Britons turn their backs on cats"

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2009 7:33 AM | Add Comment

Egypt warns pharaohs' tombs could disappear

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2009 7:04 AM | Add Comment

Analysis: Liberals tired of endless health care compromise amidst "stunning and baseless attacks, such as '(their) plan determines when you're going to pull the plug on Grandma.'"

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2009 6:54 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a donkey carrying election supplies to a rural polling station crosses a river in Afghanistan's mountainous Panjshir Province

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2009 6:50 AM | Add Comment

Another poem by Jane Kenyon: "Happiness"

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2009 7:48 AM | Add Comment

Absent-minded musician Hahn-Bin left his 18th century violin in the back of a New York taxi, but was soon reunited with it thanks to satellite technology

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2009 7:42 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a simulated image of Saturn's rings with differing colors to represent ring particle sizes in different regions

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2009 7:37 AM | Add Comment

Camp Milton, Florida: Little-known Civil War site

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2009 7:33 AM | Add Comment

Strep throat may have killed Mozart

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2009 7:29 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a newborn caretta-caretta sea turtle in the Gulf of Kyparissia, Greece. 50,000 turtles are born in this area every year, of which only 50 reaches adulthood

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2009 7:26 AM | Add Comment

Photo: poster released by the Michigan Humane Society for 'Catfax' -- adopt "certified pre-owned cats"

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2009 11:13 AM | Add Comment

Dinosaurs lie in wait at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2009 11:06 AM | Add Comment

Amish newspaper succeeds the old-fashioned way

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2009 10:54 AM | Add Comment

Traces of cocaine taint up to 90 percent of paper money in the United States

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2009 10:50 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a cloud, known as DR22, bursting with new stars in the Cygnus region of the sky.

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 7:50 PM | Add Comment

Photo: beautiful fake turtles made of cardboard on the beach in Scheveningen; animal welfare charity warns against buying souvenirs made of animals

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 10:24 AM | Add Comment

White House appears ready to drop 'public option' -- "abandoning the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new U.S. health care system"

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 10:15 AM | Add Comment

Daredevil photographer Clark Little captures monster wave just moments before it crashes over surfer

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 2:49 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights: Rehashed legislation allows husbands to deny wives food if they fail to obey sexual demands

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 2:43 AM | View Comments (18) | Add Comment

Lower Klamath tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 2:38 AM | Add Comment

Time running short for new climate-change deal

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 2:31 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a smiling sun balloon at the international hot air balloon festival in Baotou

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 2:05 AM | Add Comment

From Scott Wannberg, poet and Luciole Press contributor: he will have two readings in Los Angeles - on October 10 at Skylight Books, and October 11th with Ellyn Maybe at Beyond Baroque

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2009 4:44 AM | Add Comment

You're Bob Dylan? NJ police want to see some ID

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2009 4:20 AM | Add Comment

Thai elephant Motola, who stepped on a land mine 10 years ago and endured painful operations, has gotten artificial leg

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2009 4:12 AM | Add Comment

Wildfires spread as California declares emergency

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2009 4:03 AM | Add Comment

Article- 'We were duped': Two British women tricked into becoming stars of campaign against Obama's healthcare reforms

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2009 3:36 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Australia pledges $8 million to help save more than 100 indigenous languages that are in grave danger of dying out

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2009 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Britons defend their health care from US criticism

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2009 5:56 AM | Add Comment

Art: The light graffiti images brightening up Britain's landmarks, by Michael Bosanko

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 11:18 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 11:11 PM | Add Comment
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