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Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," once center of dispute, for sale

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2010 3:19 AM | Add Comment

Smithsonian opens $21M human evolution hall

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2010 3:07 AM | Add Comment

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

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2010 7:07 PM | Add Comment

Dozen centuries-old shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2010 3:25 PM | Add Comment

Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:11 AM | Add Comment

Photo: slap-sole shoes, probably Italian, mid-17th century, are seen on display in the "On a Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels" exhibition in Toronto

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 12:55 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Sauropod dinosaur egg fossil retrieved from Dholi Dungri in India

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 12:52 PM | Add Comment

Einstein's relativity manuscript goes on display

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Amazing new images beamed back from Mars, "crystal clear views of alien rock formations"

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:50 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Ice Once Covered the Equator

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:33 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:22 PM | Add Comment

Mysterious image of snake appears on 400-year-old painting of Queen Elizabeth I

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2010 7:03 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2010 11:20 AM | Add Comment

Van Gogh experts authenticate unusual VG painting

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2010 4:00 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2010 10:39 AM | Add Comment

Ancient Arabic inscription found in Jerusalem dated to 910 CE

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 1:19 PM | Add Comment

Secrets of Egypt's Tutankhamun set to be unveiled

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:43 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:39 PM | Add Comment

US debt will keep growing even with recovery

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:30 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2010 11:30 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2010 1:46 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

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)

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2010 3:49 PM | Add Comment

The Healing Power of Herbal Tea

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2010 4:06 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 2:01 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2010 8:00 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2010 2:46 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2010 2:42 AM | Add Comment

Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 3:45 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 2:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 2:48 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2010 6:13 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Stone Age surgery discovered after 7,000-year-old man found with expertly amputated arm

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2010 11:10 PM | Add Comment

13 countries agree plan to save wild tigers

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2010 9:38 PM | Add Comment

Film editor Karen Schmeer ("The Fog of War") struck and killed by car in NYC

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2010 9:31 PM | Add Comment

'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2010 11:26 AM | Add Comment

'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87. RIP, it was wonderful to meet you

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2010 6:41 PM | Add Comment

Advice to Young Brides 1894 (copyright 1894 The Madison Institute)

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 12:16 AM | Add Comment

WWF fears for Siberian tiger after Russian oil leak

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2010 10:30 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2010 5:25 PM | Add Comment

Scanner to reveal if 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy has a bird inside her body as an afterlife offering

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2010 9:05 PM | Add Comment

Study shows babies of today "could end up training to be space architects"

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 4:05 PM | Add Comment

Haiti earthquake: Machete-wielding gangs roam streets as fears grow death toll could hit 200,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 3:53 PM | Add Comment

Longest solar eclipse for 1,000 years turns Sun into a blazing ring of fire

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2010 9:15 PM | Add Comment

Haiti earthquake: Number of dead could be more than 100,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 11:55 AM | Add Comment

Rembrandt piece found in bathroom cabinet goes on view in new exhibit

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 1:06 PM | Add Comment

Surprising Sea Slug Is Half-plant, Half-animal

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 1:03 PM | Add Comment

Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 12:56 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Wreckage of first plane taken to Antarctica in 1912 is a once in a blue moon find

Posted by kluciole at 1/11/2010 3:47 AM | Add Comment

Cassini mission captures Saturn in its natural colors with little sign of the spectacular rings

Posted by kluciole at 1/10/2010 3:39 AM | Add Comment

Afghanistan's first skatepark mixes rich and poor

Posted by kluciole at 1/8/2010 3:11 AM | Add Comment

Outdoors delight: Maine triples conserved acreage

Posted by kluciole at 1/8/2010 3:06 AM | Add Comment

Social networking changing the way we travel

Posted by kluciole at 1/6/2010 2:42 AM | Add Comment

Japan's prime minister "wants equal ties with US"

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2010 1:34 AM | Add Comment

Muslim-Hindu punk rock bands part of new movement

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2010 11:25 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 6:04 AM | Add Comment

Ultra-Orthodox Jews make rare visit to Gaza in show of support for Palestinians

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 5:51 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Photo: the newly discovered flower (Dendrobium jiwhoei) found on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:53 AM | Add Comment

Incredible photos from Iran as reform protesters clash with police, who are accused of firing on the demonstrators

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:18 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

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

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

China finds tomb of 3rd century general Cao Cao. He ruled the Kingdom of Wei from 208 to 220 AD

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:33 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Indian tribes buy back thousands of acres of land

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:22 PM | Add Comment

First case of highly drug-resistant TB found in US

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:01 PM | Add Comment

Star Remnants Retain 'Memory' of Supernova Explosions

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 10:01 AM | Add Comment

5 years later: Some struggles, a lot of hope, for tsunami orphans

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 9:43 AM | Add Comment

Photo: fossil of a feathered raptor dinosaur with grooved fangs that delivered venom

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 9:40 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Swedish Christmas straw goat burns again (I posted about this last year as well)

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 6:23 PM | Add Comment

India's last "dancing" endangered bear set free

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2009 2:19 PM | Add Comment

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

N. America's biggest fish, the Kootenai River white sturgeon, slips toward extinction

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 4:00 AM | Add Comment

Dark matter discovered: Scientists believe they have found elusive particle that makes up 90% of Universe

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2009 8:50 AM | Add Comment

Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change (photos: Monterey Bay, CA)

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2009 8:42 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poem: "The Healers" by Laurence Binyon

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:33 PM | Add Comment

Robot records deepest erupting undersea volcano

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:16 PM | 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

First edition of Lewis Carroll's classic book "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" sells at auction for $115,000

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:04 PM | Add Comment

China stretches the imagination with world's longest sea bridge to link mainland with Macau and Hong Kong

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 8:15 PM | Add Comment

Etched by trucks in the desert sand: At 9 miles around, gargantuan circle is the world's largest artwork

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 8:07 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Scientists discover Earth-like, water-rich planet

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 8:04 PM | Add Comment

Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:58 PM | Add Comment

Uganda parliament outlaws female genital mutilation

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:54 PM | Add Comment

La. Indian village on Isle de Jean Charles holds out against plea to move

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:49 PM | Add Comment

Former Met museum director Thomas Hoving dies; with his bold risk-taking, Hoving "transformed the museum world"

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:37 PM | Add Comment

Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate

Posted by kluciole at 12/11/2009 6:25 PM | Add Comment

Saturn's mysterious hexagon crown lit up as 30-year winter ends

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2009 3:03 PM | Add Comment

Nobel-winning Obama defends war in call for peace

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2009 2:08 PM | Add Comment

WWII vet returns art book he stole from Hitler's home

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2009 8:28 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

Famous Miranda rights warning could get rewrite

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:55 PM | Add Comment

Supreme Court takes up 'honest services' (anti-corruption) law

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:50 PM | Add Comment

Historic EPA finding: Greenhouse gases harm humans

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:45 PM | Add Comment

Pearl Harbor attack remembered 68 years later

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:40 PM | Add Comment

Hottest star in the galaxy pictured for the first time, in the Bug Nebula

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 8:42 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a gorgeous cheetah; there are only between 10,000 and 15,000 of these cats left in the world.

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 8:39 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "This Side Of The Truth" by Dylan Thomas

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 8:28 PM | Add Comment

Iraqi reunited with mother 20 years after Halabja gas attack massacre

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 8:20 PM | Add Comment
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