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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for September 2009

Argentina can lay claim to the world's largest crater field, a volcanic area in Patagonia known as the "Devil's Slope"

Photo: fireworks mark end of music festival 'Spasskaya Tower' in Red square, Moscow

Photo: the gorgeous and vast Eta Carina Nebula

Titian and the art of seduction

Giant statues on Eastern Island reveal red hat secrets

Found 'guilty' but spared the lash: Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein is fined for wearing trousers (but swears she'd rather go to jail than pay it)

New species discovered in Mount Bosavi (Papua New Guinea), including a rat that's the size of a cat, fanged frogs and grunting fish

Foods that could trigger migraines

TIME article: Samurai Mind Training for Modern American Warriors

Photo: astronaut Nicole Stott waves as she pauses during a spacewalk at the International Space Station

Happy Labor of Love: The new Autumn 2009 Issue of Luciole Press is now published -- celebrating our 2nd Anniversary --

From Georgia Griffin: a poster to help find a missing dog in San Francisco -- Lucy -- she disappeared in Dolores Park Sept. 1st, and needs medicine

Photo: a roughie fish swims at the base of coral. The small, deep-sea fish live for an exceptionally long time. One was reported to live for 149 years

Poem: "A Proud Lady" by Elinor Wylie, contemporary of Edna St. Vincent Millay

National Book Festival in Washington, Sept. 26

Aboriginal art master Yannima Tommy Watson puts on final public show

Photo: three endangered loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings rescued by park rangers in Cape Canaveral, Florida, after the destruction of Hurricane Bill

Poem: "Young" by Anne Sexton

How broccoli can protect your arteries

Japan's new first lady says her soul rode in a spaceship to Venus

Pennsylvania history buff fires cannon, hits neighbor's house

How the dolphins being massacred in Taiji Cove to satisfy demand for meat are poisoning the Japanese who eat them

Chinese farmer branches out by growing pears shaped like baby Buddha

The story of Sharon Collins, the elevator girl of Robert Frank's famous image "Elevator — Miami Beach, 1955" (from The Americans)

Arctic warmest in 2,000 years, "though it should be cooling because of changes in the Earth's orbit that cause the region to get less direct sunlight"

School districts field angry complaints from parents opposed to President Obama’s back-to-school address (the first president Bush similarly addressed students in 1991)

Photo: a crane removes a dead bull from the ring after a bull fight in Spain

Photo: Melting ice of glacier creates image that looks like a "haunting face crying a river of tears into the sea"

Photo: the 'standing stones' - stone panels among the earliest know monuments in Arabia were erected in the fourth millennium BCE

Computer algorithm to decipher ancient texts (plus, photos of a newly discovered 3,700-year-old wall in Jerusalem)

Astronomers photograph most distant black hole in the universe, which is 1 billion times larger than the Sun

Photo: as fire approaches historic Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles, here is a photo from 1931 with Albert Einstein posing alongside fellow scientists

Plus-size model Crystal Renn is comfortable in her own skin, and author of "Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves"

Wolf hunt is on in Idaho — for now. First wolf killed is a female near Lochsa River. Hunter says it was "an adrenaline rush to hear other wolves howl" after he shot her

Video shows all male chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery: "there is no federal law that ensures the humane euthanasia of animals on farms or hatcheries"