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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for June 2010

Asking for good thoughts for my mother

Don’t look down: workers put finishing touches on 1,000m high Alpine viewing tower in Germany

Funniest reason given for why someone could not be a Russian spy

Americans are treated, and overtreated, to death

Thousands of French Nazi collaborators revealed as official reports are published online

Greece lightning: Ancient Parthenon lit from above as storm breaks over Athens

Poem: "Guadarrama" by Antonio Machado

Tycoon trio wins control of France's Le Monde

Dinosaurs developed elaborate crests and sails 'to attract the best mates'

Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children

Behind Kagan hearing: A fight over 'activist judges'

Teacher at all-girls school sacked after telling teenage pupils: 'If I was your pimp, I'd be very rich'

The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (The Whirlpool Galaxy)

Movies that scare for life: viewers left with fears for years

Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island, New York "since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants at site of top-secret Army germ warfare research"

China's young college grads toil in 'ant tribes' as they "run up against the realities of China's rapid economic ascent"

Photo: "In Flight Astro (ii)" at the Serpentine art gallery

Scientists simulate the sound of the 'God Particle'

E-books pave way for more blockbusters, serials

Galápagos giant tortoise saved from extinction

Opinion article: "Art Is Fundamental -- and Fundamental to Support" by Maria Shriver

Racing Palestinian girls speed into record books

Photo: a heavily oiled bird is rescued from the waters of Barataria Bay

Romans killed dozens of unwanted babies at English 'brothel'

Octopus Paul predicts German win over England

Stalin statue removed in Georgian home town

Source tells Washington Post that Rolling Stone violated interview ground rules in McChrystal profile; did the reporter "essentially take run-of-the-mill complaining and turn it into a direct challenge to presidential authority"?

Oscar the bionic cat: Pioneering surgery gives him two false back legs

"Edward Scissorhands," Tim Burton's Dark Fairy Tale, Tested as a Play in Brooklyn

Skin condition atopic dermatitis linked to cancer risk

Congress considers cracking down on 'puppy mills'

TIME article: Is Germany's Government Headed for a Breakdown?

Oglala Lakota code talker Clarence Wolf Guts laid to rest

NASA spots 'crack' in the universe in the middle of the Milky Way

Poem: "Has My Heart Gone To Sleep?" by Antonio Machado

Photo: the solar powered house of the University of Applied Sciences of Rosenheim, Germany

International Energy Agency director general Nobuo Tanaka says BP oil spill was avoidable

WWII nurse in iconic Times Square kissing photo dies; Edith Shain was 91

4th century icons of Peter and Paul found in Rome

Cystic Fibrosis: More patients not diagnosed until adulthood, "proving CF more complicated than thought"

$75M mansion near Orlando selling 'as is' -- no carpet, tiles or interior walls

The Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) as observed from the International Space Station

Luciole Press friend and contributor, author and publisher Ami Kaye, has a new book and a new website to check out!

Only known photographs of French Resistance fighters facing Nazi firing squad shown for first time

Poem: "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth

Next stop France for oldest baby mammoth

7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars

Barcelona's beacon of light: Spectra Barcelona, a light sculpture by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda

Little Maddison wants to raise money for operation for her 'disfigured' foal Diego: "He is my best friend and I don't care what he looks like, to me his face makes him special"

Why Skin Cancer Is on the Rise

VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water on Camp Lejeune

Photo: people place stickers on the wall at the Temporary Art Gallery, Berlin

Australian 'angel' saves lives at suicide spot

HBO works to get film on Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as anniversary of her death approaches

Amelia Earhart's Watch Reaches Space Station 82 Years After Historic Flight

Human race "will be extinct within 100 years" -- claims leading scientist who helped eradicate smallpox

Tiny owl chick falls into lion den and survives for three days before it is finally able to fly away

Ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan worsens; Uzbeks allege rapes, say troops let violence occur

Photo: gullies on the surface Mars taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Library of Congress places Bob Hope's joke file (85,000 pages) on public view

Israel agrees to ease Gaza land blockade

At spill hearing, BP CEO says he's 'deeply sorry'

Photo: the River Artuby floods streets in Draguignan, southern France, after torrential rain in the region

Modigliani sculpture sets artist record in Paris

Cord blood transplants a viable option in leukemia: "patients fare as well with stem cell transplants taken from a cord blood bank as they do from a well-suited adult donor"

Photo: a visitor walks inside a polytunnel at the opening of Basel's Art fair in Switzerland

Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore

TIME article -- "First, China. Next: the Great Firewall of... Australia? In Western democracy first, Australia may restrict Web access"

Photo: cracked earth on the edge of the Lam Takhong Dam, northeast of Bangkok, Thailand

Photo: local children play football at dusk in the Sun Valley township in Kagiso near Rustenburg, South Africa

Nutrients may be why some smokers avoid cancer

Scientists: Oil leaking up to 2.52M gallons daily

Bloody Sunday report blames British soldiers fully; Cameron offers apology

6-story 'Touchdown' Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning, burning it to the ground and destroying part of an amphitheater

Massive space storms forecasted as sun awakens from 'deep slumber'

Poem: "Past One O’Clock ..." by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Crocodiles 'surf' on waves to cross oceans

More than 12 million are modern slaves — trapped in forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution

The red plains of Mars were once covered by a vast ocean

Prabal Gurung: the fashion designer from Nepal who cracked New York

US finds mineral riches in Afghanistan: "enough to turn the scarred and impoverished country into one of the world's most lucrative mining centers"

Environmental damage looms in Nigerian lead crisis

Space probe returns to Earth from trip to asteroid

Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction

A beautiful article about finding an old friend after a purchase of a book with an old inscription

Obama faces rare defeat on health help for jobless

Photo: an F15 Strike Eagle backdropped by Space Shuttle Atlantis launching into space

Show unveils Andy Warhol's Catholic, abstract side

Photo: a golf ball hitting a steel plate at 150mph ... and flattening like a pancake

Louisiana leaders want Gulf drilling to resume

Hispanics abandon Arizona, fleeing economy, immigration law

Photo: a man stands on rocks on Table Mountain overlooking the city of Cape Town

"Mysterious Mountains Hidden Beneath Antarctic Ice Revealed." The Gamburtsev Mountains are "vaster than the Alps"

Bottlenose dolphins use 'diplomatic' noises to keep the peace while hunting in groups

Rare photo of slave children found in NC attic

Photo: a boat, seen through a plastic sheet, sails on the Bosphorus during a torrential rain storm in Istanbul

Photo: a model presents a creation by Mel Simon at Haute Caribbean night during Fashion Week Trinidad and Tobago

Review: 'Winter's Bone' is a backwoods masterpiece

Photo: giant matchsticks on display at the Nord Art exhibition in Buedelsdorf, near Hamburg

Chinese farmer uses homemade cannon to fight eviction; "China has witnessed a surge of violent confrontations triggered by land seizures as officials and businesses seek to cash in by evicting residents"