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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

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

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Humans May Have 'Magnetic' Sixth Sense

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

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When Doomsday Isn't, Believers Struggle to Cope

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Firefly quote from Luciole friend/contributing poet Ellyn Maybe

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

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Help Luciole's wonderful poet Ellyn Maybe and her band in their epic journey to make it to the Glastonbury Festival!

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2011 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Verse from Emily Dickinson

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Scientists finally work out age of mystery Voynich manuscript -- early 15th century

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Historic temple caught in Thai-Cambodia crossfire

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Quote from Christina Rossetti

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Poem by Margaret Atwood: "The Moment"

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Beautiful angelic cloud provides photographer with inspiration for a new charity

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Quote from Anna Akhmatova

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

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New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "subsequent investigation hootenanny"

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2010 2:46 AM | Add Comment

Beautiful, Scott. New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "i'd like to thank the following people...my so called 'thanksgiving' riff 2010"

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2010 3:06 AM | Add Comment

Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder' Turns Out to Be Right

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

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New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "when the street cleaning urchins come singing your secret tune"

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2010 9:30 PM | Add Comment

New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Heather Ann Schmidt: "Loss of Silence"

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2010 7:32 PM | Add Comment

November 14th would've been my mother Rosetta's 71st birthday

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Ancient tree to help turn Jericho into tourism hub

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Catholic priests overwhelmed with requests for exorcists

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Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time

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Exhibition brings ancient Book of the Dead to life

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Introducing Andrew Hall, a guest blogger from "An Apple a Day." His fresh-for-Luciole entry is: "Chupacabra: From Myth to Mainstream"

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2010 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Halloween ghost hunters seek old soldiers in Gettysburg

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Another wonderful one from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "the night the hideous horror found me beautiful"

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2010 7:50 PM | Add Comment

Incredible new poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "what the brothers love"

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2010 3:32 PM | Add Comment

End of the Earth Postponed

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New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "ill wind seeks current upgrade 2 step"

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Homer Simpson is Catholic, Vatican paper declares

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Spooky Quantum Entanglement Disturbed

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Incredible new poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "sometimes the earth will say it loves you"

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Fact Check: Islam already part of WTC neighborhood

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Archaeologists unearth 4,300-year-old Egyptian tomb of father and son at the Saqqara necropolis

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:22 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "As One Listens To The Rain" by Octavio Paz

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Earliest illustrated Christian bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery

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U.S. Is Richest Nation, But Not Happiest

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

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

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Poem: "Morning in the Burned House" by Margaret Atwood

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Artist Louise Bourgeois dies in NYC at 98; "her sculptures explored women's deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death "

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Poem: "A Dream Within A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe

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Poem: "When Death Comes" by Mary Oliver (previously posted)

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Poem: "i carry your heart with me" by E. E. Cummings

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Poem by Emily Brontë: "A Day Dream"

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Why We Exist: Matter Wins Battle Over Antimatter

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Muslim anger prompts Pakistan to block Facebook amid anger over page encouraging users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Courage" by Anne Sexton

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New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg, "make everything up as it goes"

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 7:01 AM | Add Comment

New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "the motion picture event of this or any other year is coming soon to a fragile wall space near you"

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: residents of the small Bavarian village of Oberammergau at the dress rehearsal for their passion play

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:33 PM | Add Comment

I am taking a business class, and the professor had us take the Jung typology test this week. I found it interesting; my result is INFJ

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2010 6:41 PM | Add Comment

Woke up this morning and thought about Alphonse de Lamartine's "The Lake," which I have posted before. So, two other poems, "Butterfly" and "Memory"

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:58 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Police carry figurine excavated from a destroyed temple in earthquake-hit Gyegu town, China

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Poem: "Love's Justification" by Michelangelo, translated by William Wordsworth

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2010 3:46 PM | Add Comment

'I'm NOT the Messiah': British economist Raj Patel forced to deny he is religious cult's divine savior

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Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims

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Ultraviolet rays shine new light on masterpieces by 14th century artist Giotto di Bondone, considered one of the founders of the Italian Renaissance

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2010 7:27 PM | Add Comment

Painting: "Witch Hill," or "The Salem Martyr" -- Oil painting by New York artist Thomas Slatterwhite Noble, 1869

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

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Photo: a view of a ruined church in Port-au-Prince 13 days after the earthquake

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 5:18 PM | Add Comment

Egypt announces find of 2,000-year-old ancient Bastet (cat goddess) temple

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Poem: "The More Loving One" by W. H. Auden

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:40 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city; pylon once stood at the entrance to temple of Isis

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:08 PM | Add Comment

Two poems by Margaret Atwood: "The Moment" and "Night Poem"

Posted by kluciole at 12/8/2009 5:09 PM | Add Comment

Exceptional artist Pär Strömberg: check out his blog and a wonderful interview. Pär will be featured in the Spring Issue of Luciole Press

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "On Living" by Nazim Hikmet

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

Festival of mass animal sacrifice begins in Nepal... 200,000 buffaloes, goats, chickens and pigeons will be killed

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2009 12:42 PM | Add Comment

Quote and poem from Hafiz ("The Tulip")

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

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Quote from Thich Nhat Hanh

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Poem: "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath

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Quote from the Dalai Lama

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Photo: a Sadhu (Hindu holy man) rests on the stairs leading to the banks of the River Ganges

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: crowds celebrate Loy Krathong festival at Wat Mahathat, one of the most spectacular temples in Thailand's first capital of Suhkothai

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:37 AM | Add Comment

Battle over face veil brewing in Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:21 AM | Add Comment

Photo: children look for coins and other reusable material amid fancy boats offered by devotees at the Bindu Sagar pond in Bhubaneswar

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:18 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "By Candlelight" by Sylvia Plath

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2009 6:52 AM | Add Comment

"Miracle" baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body "verses from the Koran appear and fade every few days," gives hope in Russian Muslim south

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2009 7:26 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Fireflies in the Garden" by Robert Frost

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Churches denounce African children as "witches" -- one child pleads, "Please stop the pastors who hurt us... I believe in God and God knows I am not a witch"

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2009 1:54 AM | Add Comment

Movie: Natasha Arthy's film "Fighter" (2007, Denmark). I really liked this film! I think the descriptions do not reveal the depth of the rich character/culture relations in this movie. Great action as well.

Posted by kluciole at 10/17/2009 5:12 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

TIME article: Albania Asks India for Mother Teresa's Remains

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Archaeology: "A 4,000 year old Leper’s Tale." Following the Vedic tradition, lepers were buried alive in some parts of India

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 1:15 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Nothing Stays Put" by Amy Clampitt

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 9:13 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Indian artists dressed as Hindu gods Rama and Laxman look on from a tableau during a Dussehra festival procession

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2009 2:54 PM | Add Comment

Quotes from John Muir

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Excerpt from a short story by Jeanette Winterson, in response to the climate crisis

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2009 1:37 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "By The Arno" (Oscar Wilde)

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Gazans improvise to honor Ramadan traditions

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Artwork in Vienna gets onlookers asking - will he jump? ... (installation by Austrian artist Ronald Koldritsch)

Posted by kluciole at 9/9/2009 10:34 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Young" by Anne Sexton

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Poem: "Machine" by Michael Donaghy

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Spain's Catholic Church has new advice for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela: "For the sake of the H1N1 virus/swine flu, don't kiss the saint"

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2009 12:18 AM | Add Comment

Another poem by Jane Kenyon: "Happiness"

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Lower Klamath tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor

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