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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for February 2010

Wonderful new video for dear Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe's track "City Streets" from Rodeo for the Sheepish!

Congrats to dear Luciole friend/contributor S.A. Griffin! Article in The Guardian: "For this poet, bombing at a reading won't be bad"

Tsunami warning to every nation around the Pacific after massive 8.8 earthquake strikes Chile

Galaxy quest: First stunning images from WISE telescope scanning our entire night sky

Removing Lymph Nodes May Boost Endometrial Cancer Survival

Indian Holi festival goers warned about water wastage

Photo: Raja, an eight-year-old rescued Royal Bengal Tiger, at the South Kahayar Bari tiger rescue centre

Van Gogh experts authenticate unusual VG painting

Bitter Melon Extract May Slow, Stop Breast Cancer

Scientists discover giant plastic rubbish patch in North Atlantic

Photo: a Maina bird flies over a Simolu flower tree on the outskirts of Guwahati city, India

Olympic photos just in from Luciole friend/contributor Tracy Lee Stum, of the warmup for Women's Figure Skating's short program in Vancouver

Startling article: Great White Sharks now more endangered than tigers with just 3,500 left in the oceans

What cats already know: "Naps Clear the Mind, Help You Learn"

Photo: one-month-old South China tiger cub Niuniu is seen at a zoo in Luoyang, Henan province

Decaying apartments symptom of housing crisis, as landlords let maintenance go in effort to avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy

Happy Birthday to Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg! Also his poem: "what I don't know now that i got through another year"

Protect Your Heart at Every Age

Photo: two red-crowned cranes dance to attract each other as others are still sleeping at their winter roost in Japan

Pluto Discovered 80 Years Ago Today ~ Still a Big Mystery

Britain at risk of worse deficit crisis than Greece, sparking serious fears over the economic stability of the country

Important: Report on Marines' water at Camp Lejeune omitted cancer causing chemical benzene. The environmental contamination is extreme!

Photo: a man holds a painting entitled "Orion" by actor Sir Anthony Hopkins on sale at Gallery 27, London

Ancient Arabic inscription found in Jerusalem dated to 910 CE

There's quite a story behind the Olympic flowers

Photo: newlyweds celebrate after 10,000 couples from 20 countries wed in a mass ceremony in Goyang, near Seoul

Secrets of Egypt's Tutankhamun set to be unveiled

Giant 1,400-year-old wine press discovered in southern Israel

Disillusioned Sen. Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system, encourages voters to remove Congressional incumbents in mass

Luciole Press is on hiatus until the next issue, to be published May 1 (important to read this)

Your hospital survival guide: The ingenious tricks that can save you from superbugs and other hospital disasters

Happy Year of the Tiger!!

Secretive urban artist Banksy shows film in Berlin

US debt will keep growing even with recovery

More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers

Photo: the giant stellar nursery surrounding NGC 3603, in which stars are continuously being born

A worthy cause!! S.A. Griffin, creator of The Poetry Bomb, has posted an appeal for his project

Fantastic Art!! Take a look at Diana Bonebrake's online studio sale and drink in the lovely skies...

Walls of water overwhelm spectators at Mavericks surfing contest

Photo: students come face to face with a Sumatran tiger during a visit to Edinburgh Zoo.

Olympics host Vancouver ranked world's most liveable city

US refuses to cancel Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama

Photo: a nun walks in St. Peter's Square during a snow fall

RIP Alexander McQueen. Two articles, including "How Alexander McQueen became 'the most influential designer of his generation'"

Dramatic images of World Trade Center collapse on 9/11 released for first time

Changes proposed in how psychiatrists diagnose

Human Trafficking Report: American children, immigrants forced into slavery, sex trade in Ohio

Lord Of The Rings prequel made by actress Kate Madison for £25,000 -- "Born of Hope" has scored 500,000 views on the internet (see it here)

The Hawaiian sky at night: Stunning moonbow arches over dramatic volcanic landscape

The Healing Power of Herbal Tea

Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons at each other in latest clash over whale hunting

Photo: Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral

Palin's Palmprompter: How Sarah sneakily consulted her notes during her $100,000 appearance at Tea Party rally to answer pre-screened questions

Photo: a haka is performed in Waitangi to celebrate New Zealand's National Day

Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77

US decision to freeze spending on HIV program sparks concern in Africa

Saudi Arabia's human rights lawyers called in to try to force divorce of girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man

Photo: Anti-whaling ship Bob Barker collides with Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru No. 3 in Antarctic waters

Photo: an installation of laser lights is seen in Vancouver

Poem: "Rambling rivers...for S.A.Griffin,Lorraine,Spencer" by Scott Wannberg

Costa Rica: Ruling party candidate Laura Chinchilla leads vote, could be elected first female president

Tebow's Focus on the Family ad could change future Super Bowls

'America is ready for another revolution,' Sarah Palin tells Tea Party activists, and says it is absurd for her not to ponder presidential bid

Never-before seen photos of Marilyn Monroe with poet Carl Sandburg go up for sale (shot by Len Steckler)

Photo: a US army helicopter flies over the stepped Ziggurat temple, which dates back to 2113 BC, in the ancient city of Ur

Photo: a stingless jellyfish swims just under the surface of a remote lake in Surigao, Philippines

Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness

Ancient Great Andamanese dialect extinct after last speaker of Bo, Bao SR, dies at age 85

Few remain in Centralia, Pennsylvania -- the coal town's underground mine fire still burns, as it has since 1962!

14-year-old Reginald Earnshaw confirmed as UK's youngest WWII death

Young leopard gets a prickly reception as it tries to eat a porcupine in Botswana

Shoshana Johnson, the nation's first female black POW (captured along with Jessica Lynch), speaks out

Photo: villagers remove petioles of red chili at Shertha village in India where they earn 7 rupees (US$ 0.14) for 44pounds

Great essay from Luciole's Emma-Jayne Saanen (send love to Dougal): "Would you lend a paw? Would you stop to help an injured animal?"

Winter blasted Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in need of HELP!

New book investigates mystery of Henrietta Lacks' "immortal cells" (the tissue sample has never died), which had "a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine "

Mystery of missing painting by Rolf Harris now center of court battle over its possession