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Listening to: October Project's "Take Me As I Am" (video)

Wonderful new video for dear Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe's track "City Streets" from Rodeo for the Sheepish!

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)

Iran says will show no mercy to opposition protesters

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

Video: Igor Stravinsky conducts The Firebird Suite (created for ballerina Tamara Karsavina)

Love the imagery in this video: "Meet Me Halfway" by the Black Eyed Peas

University student in Brazil expelled after wearing mini-dress to class; 20-year-old Geisy Arruda had to be escorted off campus as pandemonium broke out (though people wear far, far less at Carnival)

Belated BIG congratulations to Luciole friend and contributor Graywolf, and the Graywolf Blues Band for winning a NAMMY! (Native American Music Awards)

Just watched the PBS broadcast of "Born Wild: The First Days of Life"... here is a video clip!

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.

Video: "The Lark Ascending" -- composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Inspired by a poem by the English poet George Meredith (1828-1909)

Thanks so much to Luciole contributor Christine McClintock for sending me this lovely video!

Video: "Fantasia on Greensleeves" - Ralph Vaughan Williams

Before Lucy came Ardi; new earliest hominid found: "Only 4ft tall and rather hairy... meet your 4.4million-year-old ancestor"

Little girl at the window: Only known film of Anne Frank is posted on YouTube

Renowned Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha has died; she was 86

Video montage from "The Virgin Queen" (played brilliantly by Anne-Marie Duff). Song: "The Consort" by Rufus Wainright

We have all had days like this -- Video: "Love Is Gone" by David Guetta & Chris Willis

Videos: Luciole Press friend and contributor Graywolf interviewed by Roberta Weighill for AIM TV (American Indian Movement Santa Barbara)

Thanks to Scott Wannberg for sending me the link to this video, "Cat Takes a Bath"

Video: Acoustic version of Brandi Carlile's "The Story" at Mississippi Studios, Portland, Oregon

Article- 'We were duped': Two British women tricked into becoming stars of campaign against Obama's healthcare reforms

Update (previously covered topic on Luciole): Important video of hope, plus articles: "An apathetic, greedy west has abandoned war-torn Congo" -- "UN urges DR Congo to empower women in fight against rape" and "The War on Women"

Articles and videos: "Iran tense after police, protesters clash" (video: "Poem for the Rooftops of Iran")

Articles: "Iran regime faces public anger: will it survive?" and "Iran bans foreign press as rival Ahmadinejad and Mousavi supporters hit the streets"

Articles and photos: "Speed of Iran vote count called suspicious; 300,000 Mousavi supporters take to the streets in protest"

Peregrine falcon family drama is internet hit as millions watch them live on TV

New music from previously featured Lhasa de Sela: Video, "Rising"

Video: the trailer for the movie, "The Edge," with Anthony Hopkins (written by David Mamet)

Video: "La Cumparsita" -- dancers Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne (and TIME article from 1948 about this tango)

Video: Mor Karbasi, "El Pastor"

Video: "The Gates of Istanbul" by Loreena McKennitt

Rosalía de Castro's "Adios Rios, Adios Fontes" set to music by Amancio Prada, who recorded an album of her poetry called "Remembrances of Rosalía de Castro" in 1975

Space junk raises risks for Hubble repair mission

Video: Eva La Yerbabuena, flamenco dancer

Video: The making of a Hubble image

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

Video: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sheherazade"

Videos: previously featured Martine Lund Hoel of Norway... "Inn i Peer Gynts rike - Huldra lokker" and a promo video with the Hardingfiddlerband

Mexico's president assumes emergency powers to isolate people infected with deadly swine flu strain; cases confirmed in the U.S. -- Article here, plus "swine flu questions and answers"

Video: Part of the movie, Two Mules for Sister Sara, starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood...

Video: Phil Thornton & Hossam Ramzy, "At the Gates of the Citadel"

Susan Boyle's audition set to become the most successful YouTube video ever

Mountaintop mining activist Maria Gunnoe wins global award

Video: "Scarborough Fayre" - Mediaeval Baebes

Susan Boyle hype revitalizes 10-Year-old cover, "Cry Me A River"... as she says, "I wouldn't want to change myself too much because that would really make things a bit false"

Video: Phil Thornton & Hossam Ramzy, "The Land of the Pharaohs"

Video: Dvořák - Czech Suite, Op. 39 - I. Preludium - Part 1/5

Video: "Love Theme" from "The Dark Crystal" (with scenes from the film)

Video: Sinéad Lohan, "To Ramona"

Top Pakistan judge to probe woman's flogging; Samar Minallah, who works for a Pakistani human rights organisation, said "The entire village knows she is innocent"

Inside Obama's bank CEOs meeting: “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks”

Video: Ralph Vaughan Williams, "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis"

Video: "Villdans" by Martine Lund Hoel

I do this routine three times every morning! (kidding) Video: OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"

Photos: when Kevin Richardson decided to cool off in the sweltering South African heat he was joined by an unlikely swimming partner - a giant lioness

Tests could find ovarian cancer early

Videos: The Secret of NIMH, by Don Bluth

Protestant and Catholic leaders of Northern Ireland mount exceptional display of unity against rising violence from Irish Republican Army dissidents

Video: the opening sequence of "The Cat From Outer Space"

Video: "Seneca" by Bardo State, with scenes from Eric Valli's film "Himalaya"

One of my favorite movies: "The Girl in the Café" starring Bill Nighy and Kelly Macdonald. Synopsis, photos, and video clips here...

Videos: BBC's "The Virgin Queen" soundtrack, first song. Top video is better quality, second video has the lyrics...

Video: Lhasa de Sela, "Small Song"

Video: Lhasa de Sela, "La Marée Haute"

Scientists meet to save Lascaux cave from fungus ... (photos and video)

Video: Mediæval Bæbes - "Salva nos"

Deep-sea fish with a transparent head: the "amazing barreleye fish really does have eyes in the back of his head"

Want to know what it is like to drive through Glenwood Canyon in Colorado? Video: "The Canyon" by Philip Glass

Video: Arvo Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel' .... (reminds me a bit of previously featured Eric Whitacre's "Lux Aurumque")

Alp-sized peaks found entombed in Antarctic ice

Mind the crevasse: the amazing 3D pavement art that has pedestrians on edge (giant optical illusions conceived by German artist Edgar Mueller)

Egypt briefly opens Gaza border for 1,000 to cross

Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario. Says one economist, "If we don't deal with climate change decisively... what we're talking about then is extended world war"

Geronimo and his family have rights; if Yale has his remains, they should give them back

Activists 'shocked' at Clinton stance on China rights: "our pressing on those issues can't interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis," Clinton told reporters

Video: Andrés Segovia, "Asturias"

Chavez win sparks opposition warnings of greater authoritarian rule

Gen. Boris Gromov, last Russian commander of troops in Afghanistan, warns US: "Afghanistan taught us an invaluable lesson ... It has been and always will be impossible to solve political problems using force"

Breaking it down: Winners, losers in $789B stimulus package... GM both wins and loses, while homebuilders get less aid

The badly burned koalas, Bob and Sam, who became best friends after surviving Australia's deadliest bushfires

Study: Birds shifting north; global warming cited

84 killed in deadliest-ever Australian wildfires. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd: "Hell in all its fury has visited the good people of Victoria"

Video and photos: dog fighting makes a comeback in Afghanistan

Antarctic Meltdown Would Flood Washington, D.C.

Video/Song: Mary Fahl's "Ben Aindi Habibi," with Arabic and English translations. It is a kharja (lyric poem) written in the 11th or 12th century, often romantic in nature and similar to ghazals (which I have posted about before)

Hamas dispenses politics along with aid to Gazans, making them listen to a political speech before they receive any money

Photo and video ~~ this photo of a domestic cat led me to a video of German TV weatherman Jörg Kachelmann and a portly cat called Lupin, who "became internet stars after Lupin wandered into a live broadcast"

Evolution war still rages 200 years after Darwin's birth

Iceland's government topples amid financial mess

"The people are watching, Mr. President" ... many websites created to track Obama's promises

New dynamic in children's health care program debate

College financial aid system facing stiff test

Hamas says it's back in control of the Gaza Strip, and delivering relief payments to Gazans whose homes were damaged

Politico: What we don't know about Obama

Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address (video as well)

Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov (who once represented slain Anna Politkovskaya) and journalist Anastasia Baburova killed in Moscow, by masked gunman after Markelov's news conference to protest release of Russian colonel who strangled Chechen woman

Chinese leopard cubs, Wei and Xun, are born in Paris zoo (video)

Iraqi "shoe thrower" Muntadhar al-Zeidi to seek Swiss asylum, says his lawyer