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Fact Check: Islam already part of WTC neighborhood

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

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

Earliest illustrated Christian bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery

U.S. Is Richest Nation, But Not Happiest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poem by Emily Brontë: "A Day Dream"

Why We Exist: Matter Wins Battle Over Antimatter

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

Poem: "Courage" by Anne Sexton

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

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"

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

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

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"

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

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

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

Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poem: "On Living" by Nazim Hikmet

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

Quote and poem from Hafiz ("The Tulip")

Poem: "In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

Quote from Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Quote from the Dalai Lama

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

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

Battle over face veil brewing in Egypt

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

Poem: "By Candlelight" by Sylvia Plath

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

Poem: "Fireflies in the Garden" by Robert Frost

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"

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.

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

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

Poem: "Nothing Stays Put" by Amy Clampitt

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

Quotes from John Muir

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

Poem: "By The Arno" (Oscar Wilde)

Gazans improvise to honor Ramadan traditions

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

Poem: "Young" by Anne Sexton

Poem: "Machine" by Michael Donaghy

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"

Another poem by Jane Kenyon: "Happiness"

Lower Klamath tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor

Poem: "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon

A fantastic poem from Julie Hill Alger: "Lesson 1"

2 articles: "Wednesday's solar eclipse pits superstition against science" and "China gears up for longest solar eclipse of the century (6 minutes and 39 seconds of darkness)"

Poem: Anne Sexton, "Admonitions To A Special Person"

Photo: evening view of the 1,000-year-old Potala Palace - the world's highest - in Lhasa, Tibet

Poem: Willa Cather's "The Hawthorn Tree"

Frank McCourt (author of Angele'a Ashes) is gravely ill with meningitis, brother says

Wadsworth Church built on faith, freedom, poetry

Article on previously featured and much loved poet Mary Oliver: "The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown"

Two poems by New England poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925): "The Giver of Stars" and "At Night"

Another poem from previously featured poet Nizar Qabbani: "Love Compared"

Poem: Louise Glück, "The Wild Iris"

I have just received the new chap from Rose of Sharon Press (publisher S.A. Griffin): "Let Everybody Come In" by Scott Wannberg. I love it very much!

Photos: hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims trek through treacherous mountains in revolt-torn Kashmir each year to reach the holy cave of Lord Shiva in Amarnath

Another poem from previously featured poet Delmira Agustini: "El Nudo" ("The Knot")

Poem: Louise Bogan, "The Crossed Apple"

New poem from Luciole Press friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "fire down below"

"America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam" -- Obama

Excellent new poem from Scott Wannberg: "the best man steps out for the evening"

Poem: Bliss Carman, "Earth Voices"

Poem: Scott Wannberg, "the heart is a mad country"

Poem: Delmira Agustini, "I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown"

Poem: Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night"

Another poem by Margaret Atwood: "Night Poem"

Poem: Margaret Atwood, "Siren Song" (plus the painting "The Siren" by John William Waterhouse )

Legend of English vampire laid to rest in Peruvian village: the history of Sarah Roberts, and how some have come to see her as a saint (or boost for tourism)

Photo: art installation "Rack with Madonnas" by German artist Fritsch in the new Brandhorst modern art museum in Munich

Poem: "Song Of Proserpine" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, plus the mythology and art of Persephone (the Greek equivalent of Proserpine... I vigorously studied and loved the Greek myths as a child)

My cat's second favorite poem by Pablo Neruda: "Cat's Dream"

Quote from Henry Miller

More on one of my favorite poets, previously featured Rosalía de Castro: book excerpt about her work, another bio, and poem "Margarita" (Spanish version and best English translation I can find)

Another poem by Gabriela Mistral, "The Rose"

Photos: South Korean dancers perform a traditional dance - "Palilmu" - during a memorial service called Jongmyo Jerye

Gabriela Mistral: first Chilean and first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; here is a bio and two of her poems -- "I am Not Alone" and "The Stranger"

Videos: Brendan Perry's "Utopia", using rich imagery from the movie "The Fountain" (whose trailer appears below)

Video: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sheherazade"