01/09/2009
Forward.com (Forward)
Things are so grim these days, I can’t help wondering whether we might find a measure of comfort in history. It’s not a matter of learning from the past — have we ever? — so much as taking heart from the ways in which the human spirit has managed, over time, to prevail amid crushing disappointment.
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01/08/2009
Press releases (The Taunton Gazette)
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01/02/2009
Trumpeter swan facts (Wisconsin State Journal)
Trumpeter swan facts: •North America's largest waterfowl at 21 to 30 pounds with a 7-foot wingspan.•Named for its call, a deep and resonant trumpet-like sound.•Trumpeters mate for life and live 20 to 30 years.•At settlement trumpeters were present throughout most of the U.S. and Canada.•By the mid-1930s, only 69 trumpeter swans were known to remain in the continental U.S.•Population declines ...
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12/30/2008
Fashion's AZ of 2009 (Daily Telegraph)
Bronwyn Cosgrave reveals 2009's hottest labels and more...
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12/29/2008
A long swan song for the Blass house (International Herald Tribune)
The company that Bill Blass built has begun to dismantle after its parent company, NexCen Brands, discontinued the collection.
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12/28/2008
Annual Teddy Bear Tea features auction, music (The Desert Sun)
Eyes were a glow as the ladies sipped tea and everyone was on the go. Santa arrived on his motorized sleigh (a fire truck). And Brad Reinking in his full Peter Pan costume sang for all.
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12/28/2008
Pop and rock in 2008: Keep it wonky ... it worked for Leonard (Independent)
That, then, was the year pop went wonky. OK, so the soubriquet "Wonky Pop" – coined by Popjustice's Peter Robinson as the banner for a national package tour starring Alphabeat, Frankmusik and Leon Jean Marie back in April – was slightly annoying.
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12/22/2008
MEMORIES OF POLSKY'S (Akron Beacon Journal)
Akron department store closed in December 1978 Store defies Blizzard of '78 and opens
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12/22/2008
North West Evening Mail (North-West Evening Mail)
IT seems very hard to imagine a shopping trip around the town centres of Barrow or Ulverston without their being a Woolies store to explore.
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12/18/2008
Leave a comment (Stuff)
The Wellington Cup Carnival is just weeks away and hats are back, dominating global fashion trends and putting the spotlight on local millinery talent.
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