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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for August 2009

Venezuela: Natural beauty for bold travelers

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 11:05 PM | Add Comment

Several wildfires scorch Calif. as thousands flee

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 11:01 PM | Add Comment

Unique wildlife of Galapagos Islands under threat from disease-carrying mosquitoes hitching lifts on tourist boats

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 10:53 PM | Add Comment

Facebook entries stir jealousy

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 10:46 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a rainbow shimmers above Charlotte, North Carolina, after a fast-moving shower passed over the city

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 11:58 AM | Add Comment

Palin stands by 'death panel' claim, even though "there will be no 'death panels' under the legislation being considered"

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 11:44 AM | Add Comment

Squirrel photo crasher: cheeky rodent becomes star of couple's holiday snap in Banff National Park

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 11:26 PM | Add Comment

95-year-old Chief Joe Medicine Crow receives Medal of Freedom

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 11:18 PM | Add Comment

Women against pine marten moments! (read the article, and my opinion): "Why women cheered Hillary Clinton's angry response... even today, after 20 years of feminism, the female voice is like one of those whistles only dogs can hear"

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 10:58 PM | Add Comment

Just who are these health care protesters?

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 10:54 PM | Add Comment

Report: NASA can't keep up with killer asteroids

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 10:50 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -133- LOSING OUR CHIEF

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 10:47 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a statue of Buddha's head submerged in flood water and debris from Typhoon Morakot

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 6:19 AM | Add Comment

Eyebrows raised as billboards of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cleavage spring up across Germany with slogan: 'We have more to offer'

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 6:13 AM | Add Comment

Jeers and taunts drown out senators at town hall meetings. Sen. Specter: "Healthcare protests not necessarily representative of America but should be heard." One protestor claims, "If they don't let us vent our frustrations, they'll have a revolution"

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 5:56 AM | Add Comment

Photo: two lesser kestrals perch on a branch

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 3:28 AM | Add Comment

Photos: map illustrating the annual Perseid meteor shower, and photos of the meteor streaks

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 3:20 AM | Add Comment

FACT CHECK: No "death panel" in health care bill

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 3:14 AM | Add Comment

Piano that survived atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima plays on for peace; it will play in NYC next year to mark the 9th 9/11 anniversary

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 3:06 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Mona Lisa smiles on after Russian teacup attack

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 3:01 AM | Add Comment

Incredible photo: visitors watch the sunrise from Mount Moses in the Sinai Peninsula

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2009 7:57 AM | Add Comment

Strong Perseid Meteor Shower Expected Tonight

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2009 7:40 AM | Add Comment

Heart transplant record holder Tony Huesman dies of cancer: "His heart never gave up until the end, when it had to give up"

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2009 7:39 AM | Add Comment

Photo: lightning strikes during the 62nd Locarno International Film Festival

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2009 7:37 AM | Add Comment

Surface of Saturn moon Titan "closely resembles" Earth with an assortment of mountains, lakes and volcanoes

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2009 1:11 AM | Add Comment

Received this comment from Laura Dobson: "The Blue Cross pet charity has now launched a fundraising appeal to raise the money to bring Sandbag back to the UK"

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2009 12:55 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Clinton off to Congo to target epidemic of sexual assault in violence-torn nation, after wrapping up trip to Angola where she pushed democratic reform and trade

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2009 12:46 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Perseid Meteor Shower Might Dazzle

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2009 12:41 AM | Add Comment

Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2009 12:36 AM | Add Comment

Immune system cancer multiple myeloma found in young 9/11 officers

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2009 12:33 AM | Add Comment

Wonder wall: the 400 foot shoal of sardines captured by divers on Philippine reef "shimmering as a cloud, whipping up the water like a tornado"

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2009 11:30 AM | Add Comment

Grazing is dangerous: hard to believe, but this poor ram got his horn snagged on an electrical wire and ended up hanging 15 feet above the ground (he is OK now though!)

Posted by kluciole at 8/8/2009 11:43 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

No politics or sex: Art feels Myanmar junta's grip

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

Australia considers mass killings of thousands of camels

Posted by kluciole at 8/8/2009 11:26 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Grieving father in Paraguay opens coffin to say goodbye to his 'dead' baby son, and finds him alive; he is now in stable condition in a hospital

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

The secret of how our brains switch on an itch

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

MY opinion, as Palin ups the rhetoric, saying Obama's health care plan is 'evil' and will make "death panels" that deny care (DESPITE the fact that insurance companies already effectively decide who gets transplants or not)

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2009 9:45 PM | View Comments (26) | Add Comment

HOORAH!!!! "Sandbag saved! Animal charities like Blue Cross unite to bring home soldiers' mascot left out in Iraq"

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2009 9:42 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Large Hadron Collider: Black hole or crucial machine?

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2009 9:41 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Boy dies after getting stranded in Death Valley; his mom and their dachsund are still alive after failed camping attempt

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2009 9:40 PM | Add Comment

Mouse builds nest egg in Oregon ATM with shredded $20 bills

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2009 9:38 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Archaeologists unearth birthplace of Roman emperor Vespasian in Italy

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2009 8:05 AM | Add Comment

Photo: space shuttle Discovery rolls out to Launch Pad 39A against a backdrop of dramatic lightning

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2009 11:02 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

NOT happy to hear this... Previously featured hero dog Sandbag forced to stay in Iraq despite desperate pleas from British troops

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2009 10:46 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Photo: Alinghi's catamaran in Lake Geneva looks like a fin slicing the water

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2009 10:36 PM | Add Comment

Bird experiment shows Aesop's fable may be true

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2009 10:33 PM | Add Comment

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine allows 3 men (of the "Norfolk Four") convicted in rape-slaying of fellow sailor's wife be freed; outraged victim's family "blame the decision on political pressure from novelist John Grisham"

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2009 10:31 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

A gorgeous shot of the clouds moving across the moon above Tijuana, Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 11:18 PM | Add Comment

RIP dear little one: Previously featured Aussie koala Sam, who survived the awful fires this year, has died in surgery

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 10:39 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

PTSD raises heart disease risk in Iraq war vets

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 10:33 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a marsh crocodile eats a large fish in Gauhati, India

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 10:18 PM | Add Comment

Common back treatment using medical cement to fix cracks in the spinal bones of the elderly "no better than fake one"

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 10:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a dirt road leads to the local cemetary outside the town of Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 10:02 PM | Add Comment

Poem by Hilda Doolittle (who was engaged briefly to Ezra Pound): "Evadne"

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 6:27 AM | Add Comment

Welcome home ladies: very touching photos of freed journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling greeting their families

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 6:14 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Yeah, I might look this cranky if I was put in a cat show too... though this little guy in Prague looks like he will be going for someone's blood soon

Posted by kluciole at 8/4/2009 2:49 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Had to post this, great article title: "Britain invaded by power-crazed super-ants that cause blackouts and fires"

Posted by kluciole at 8/4/2009 2:42 PM | Add Comment

2 articles: "Police beat women opposing Sudan dress code trial" and "Police fire tear gas at women supporting Lubna Hussein, who is facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers"

Posted by kluciole at 8/4/2009 2:30 PM | Add Comment

Happy Birthday to Helen Thomas and President Obama!

Posted by kluciole at 8/4/2009 2:25 PM | Add Comment

Belated posting: UFO cloud! "The giant anvil-shaped cumulonimbus cloud hovering 75,000 feet above Earth, photographed by Space Station astronauts"

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2009 10:23 PM | Add Comment

Russian soccer fans told to drink whisky while in Wales for the World Cup qualifier to ward off the H1N1 swine flu virus: "That should cure all symptoms of the disease"

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

NZ jogger Margit Christensen mauled by 8 hunting dogs, now in stable condition

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2009 10:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: located above the center of the Medusa galaxy, the 'hair' - made of snakes in the Greek myth - is a tidal tail formed by a collision between galaxies

Posted by kluciole at 8/2/2009 9:17 PM | Add Comment

Another poem by Julie Hill Alger, "Opening the Geode"

Posted by kluciole at 8/2/2009 9:11 PM | Add Comment

King salmon vanishing in Alaska, smokehouses empty: "The lower Yukon villages are economically devastated"

Posted by kluciole at 8/2/2009 8:51 PM | Add Comment

Study: Diabetics who took the drug metformin, which makes the body process insulin better, had a 62 percent lower risk of pancreatic cancer

Posted by kluciole at 8/2/2009 8:50 PM | Add Comment

Poor guy is NOT ugly: "E.T. find home? RSPCA struggles to find new owner for Britain's ugliest mutt"

Posted by kluciole at 8/2/2009 2:30 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Important: FDA warns public not to use any Clarcon sanitizer products as they contain bacteria that can cause extremely serious infections

Posted by kluciole at 8/2/2009 2:25 PM | Add Comment

Photos: polar bears cool down in the water at the zoo in Schoenbrunn

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2009 11:55 AM | Add Comment

Study: Injecting oxygen into cancerous tumors significantly boosts the chances of recovery

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2009 11:50 AM | Add Comment

Sen. Franken feuds with T. Boone Pickens five years after Pickens put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tank John Kerry’s presidential campaign

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2009 11:49 AM | Add Comment

Pen pals: Gerald the giraffe and Eddie the goat form unlikely friendship when kept in same enclosure

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2009 11:44 AM | Add Comment
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