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TIME article: Why Some Languages Sound So Fast

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2011 12:07 PM | Add Comment

Israel Museum returns art to Jewish artist Max Liebermann's heirs

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2011 11:53 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the India-Pakistan border, taken by the International Space Station

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Photo: Maori Warrior Toa Waaka issues the ‘Wero’ during the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2011 11:08 AM | Add Comment

Searing words: Nepal's prize-winning poet with cerebral palsy, Jhamak Kumari Ghimire

Posted by kluciole at 9/3/2011 4:11 AM | Add Comment

Found: Roman port where soldiers launched invasion of Wales 2,000 years ago

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2011 9:22 AM | Add Comment

Syrian gunmen break artist Ali Farzat's hands as 'warning'

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2011 8:51 PM | Add Comment

Next issue of Luciole will include tribute to Scott Wannberg; you can submit poems, photos, memories, anything

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2011 12:58 AM | Add Comment

Sad to announce, Luciole's dear mighty contributing poet and friend Scott Wannberg has passed

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2011 12:53 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

London overtakes New York as top fashion capital

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2011 1:18 PM | Add Comment

Bare-breast protest by Femen group at Ukraine trial

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Is the tide turning for Twitter and Facebook? One in four young people 'bored' with social media

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2011 12:58 PM | Add Comment

August 19th -- 1st National Indigenous Music Awards in Darwin, Australia

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2011 8:57 AM | Add Comment

Interesting article: "One-child policy a surprising boon for China's girls"

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2011 8:45 AM | Add Comment

Quake-hit Christchurch, New Zealand unveils low-rise city plans dominated by parkland

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2011 1:32 AM | Add Comment

'Remains' of St Edburga (620 BCE) discovered under apartment block

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2011 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Giorgio Armani pays haute-couture homage to Japan

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2011 3:38 AM | Add Comment

Appeal launched to help millions left starving after East Africa's worst drought in decades

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2011 3:19 AM | Add Comment

Vatican opens archives for unprecedented exhibit

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2011 10:08 PM | Add Comment

13,000-year-old image of ancient mammoth found on bone fragment in Florida

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2011 11:44 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Northern Irish police warn Belfast riots may cause fatalities

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2011 11:37 AM | Add Comment

Fantastic art event in Wellington, New Zealand this Friday! Check out the Matariki Seven Sisters 2011 Art Exhibition

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2011 3:30 PM | Add Comment

UN backs gay rights for first time ever

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2011 7:44 PM | Add Comment

Jewish court sentences dog to death by stoning, suspecting it to be reincarnated lawyer

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2011 7:31 PM | Add Comment

Gold rush another blight to ailing Amazon jungle

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2011 8:30 PM | Add Comment

Guam mulls going its own way

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New Zealand mourns death of Shrek the famously shaggy sheep

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2011 5:23 AM | Add Comment

Japanese retirees ready to risk Fukushima front line

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Ancient Assyrian dictionary finished — after 90 years

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2011 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Please come "like" the Luciole Press fan page on Facebook

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2011 1:32 PM | Add Comment

Archaeology: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2011 1:03 PM | Add Comment

Midwives on motorbikes offer sex education in Cambodia

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2011 2:48 AM | Add Comment

Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2011 3:56 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Egypt: Convergence of Civilizations

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2011 9:15 PM | Add Comment

Egypt's lost pyramids: Spied from space by satellite, 17 tombs buried by sands of time

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2011 4:50 AM | Add Comment

'Earliest' Bronze Age battle site containing 100 bodies found on German river bank

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2011 1:15 AM | Add Comment

When Doomsday Isn't, Believers Struggle to Cope

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2011 3:43 AM | Add Comment

Egyptian princess died of heart disease, shattering myth that it's only a modern problem

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2011 8:21 AM | Add Comment

American Indians say code name "Geronimo" offensive but not surprising

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2011 5:35 PM | Add Comment

Despite economic growth, India lets many of its girls die

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2011 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at age 99

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2011 1:58 PM | Add Comment

Jennifer Egan wins fiction Pulitzer Prize

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2011 2:42 AM | Add Comment

Report: Book "Three Cups of Tea" inaccurate

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2011 8:39 PM | Add Comment

Last two speakers of dying language (Ayapaneco) refuse to talk to each other - because they don't get along

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2011 8:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: statue of Hotei Buddha sits in debris in tsunami-destroyed town of Sendai

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2011 3:06 AM | Add Comment

Census spotlights India's 'missing girls'

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Japan disaster sparks social media innovation

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2011 2:23 AM | Add Comment

How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2011 2:19 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Pompeii - House of the Small Fountain

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2011 5:59 PM | Add Comment

Vote ban angers Saudi women in era of change

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2011 1:24 PM | Add Comment

Docs warn about Facebook use and teen depression

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2011 1:20 PM | Add Comment

Japan steel city's 'last geisha' Tsuyako Ito defies tsunami

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2011 1:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo: model presents paper creation by Colombian designers at Bogota's International Fashion Week

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2011 5:54 PM | Add Comment

Texas find suggests earlier settlers in North America

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2011 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Thought-provoking article: In this age of globalization, "Japan tragedy seared into the world's imagination"

Posted by kluciole at 3/19/2011 5:55 PM | Add Comment

Egypt votes freely for first time in half-century

Posted by kluciole at 3/19/2011 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Touching article filled with kindness: "With aid slow to come Japanese fend for themselves"

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2011 7:09 PM | Add Comment

Amid revolution, Egyptian designer Marie Bishara still makes it to Paris

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2011 6:42 PM | Add Comment

Tradition meets modernity at Nigeria fashion show

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2011 6:38 PM | Add Comment

Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou: "(God had a wife) Ancient Israelites worshipped a God and Goddess in the same temple"

Posted by kluciole at 3/5/2011 7:51 PM | Add Comment

Diane von Furstenberg Honors Women at New York Fashion Week

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2011 8:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a model presents a paper creation by Colombian designers at Bogota's International Fashion Week

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2011 9:48 AM | Add Comment

My grandmother was from the Cherokee res. in Oklahoma, so this is interesting for me to see: "Hispanics now outnumber Native Americans in Okla. "

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2011 10:23 PM | Add Comment

TIME article -- "Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake"

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2011 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Secret life of the Amazon Indians: Incredible images show near-extinct Awá tribe at work and play

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2011 2:52 PM | Add Comment

Australians giving up on Aboriginals, according to poll

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2011 4:35 PM | Add Comment

Happy V-day :) Here is a funny dance video for you

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2011 4:26 PM | Add Comment

18 items missing from Egyptian Museum after unrest

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2011 4:28 PM | Add Comment

A look inside America's poorest county

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2011 4:20 PM | Add Comment

Fashion: Mother Nature's gone glam in an enchanted forest

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2011 9:49 PM | Add Comment

Historic temple caught in Thai-Cambodia crossfire

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2011 10:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a 'capsule inn' hotel in Shanghai

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Third-century Roman sculptures discovered

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2011 1:40 AM | Add Comment

How India feeds 120 million kids a day

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2011 1:25 AM | Add Comment

UN says female circumcision should end

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2011 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Egypt asks Berlin to return Nefertiti bust

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2011 5:58 PM | Add Comment

Life sentence for 1975 reservation slaying of Annie Mae Aquash in South Dakota

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2011 5:32 PM | Add Comment

As edgy NYC disappears, does its character go too?

Posted by kluciole at 1/23/2011 9:21 PM | Add Comment

Through schooling, a few Gypsies join middle class

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2011 8:59 PM | Add Comment

Female Genital Mutilation Banned by Islamic Leaders in Mauritania

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2011 8:36 PM | Add Comment

Banksy Says His Movie "Exit Through the Gift Shop" Is All True

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2011 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Quinoa's popularity boon to Bolivians

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2011 4:51 PM | Add Comment

Popular culture goes back to the Thirties

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2011 5:28 PM | Add Comment

Hilarious -- read an "American guide" to the British series Downton Abbey, to be shown on PBS

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2011 5:24 PM | Add Comment

Photo: red lanterns in Beijing for New Year celebrations

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2011 5:15 PM | Add Comment

"India's great provocateur" Khushwant Singh to release last book at age of 96

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2011 9:03 PM | Add Comment

Rousseff becomes first woman to lead Brazil, vows to "to honor women, to protect the most fragile, and to govern for all"

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2011 8:58 PM | Add Comment

Graffiti art brightens war-torn Afghan capital

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2011 8:54 PM | Add Comment

Words "viral" and "epic" consigned to college trash

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2011 8:36 PM | Add Comment

Israeli companies outsourcing to Palestinians

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2010 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Mummy Head (and Brain) Identified as Long-Lost French King Henry IV

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2010 6:05 PM | Add Comment

Storm in Israel uncovers ancient statue

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2010 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Remember, it is not the "Arabian Gulf," but the "Persian Gulf"

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2010 5:56 PM | Add Comment

Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2010 8:03 PM | Add Comment

Workmen discover body of 'huge' gladiator who was 'stabbed six times and thrown out with the rubbish'

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2010 7:58 PM | Add Comment

2,000-year-old Holy Thorn Tree of Glastonbury is cut down

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2010 6:46 PM | Add Comment

Saudi women sue male guardians who stop marriage

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2010 12:54 AM | Add Comment

Having children abroad? Your country may not want them

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2010 2:49 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Buddhist monks light candles during the annual Loy Krathong festival

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2010 5:57 PM | Add Comment

The story of Sumiati, the Indonesian maid who suffered the plight of many immigrant maids: lips cut off, burns all over her body and broken bones

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2010 7:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment
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