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10/16/2008
Courageous Welsh dragons slain by Germany (Times Online)
Recent inspired performances against Germany have a cherished place in Welsh folklore, but unfortunately so do hard-luck tales. Another agonising defeat, this time by the only goal, leaves Wales with an uphill task to qualify for the World Cup finals.
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10/15/2008
Cosmic Presidential Predictors Weigh In (CBS News)
Campaign folklore has it that these fun forces can pick the winners. They have nothing to do with politics, but have proven quite accurate in past races. Political commentator Laura Schwartz explained.
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10/15/2008
Not all shipwrecks hold hidden treasure (Alaska Public Radio Network)
Hidden beneath Alaska’s coastal waters lie the stuff of legends and folklore. Shipwrecks. But instead of gold and jewels, much of the cargo still onboard is hazardous. Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage Download Audio (MP3)
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10/15/2008
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie (The Village Voice)
Straight outta the woolly nethers of Portsmouth, Ohio, comes Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie , Jay Delaney's infiltration of a two-man league of Appalachian folklore, faith, and depression. "I'm a loser. I'm a complete failure. I never amounted to anything and I never will," says Wayne, a ru...
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10/15/2008
Iba Ndiaye, African Modernist Painter, Is Dead at 80 (New York Times)
Mr. Ndiaye helped found a Senegalese art movement called École de Darkar, which was aligned with the literary movement of Négritude.
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10/16/2008
Derby-day highs and lows will not distract Paatelainen (The Herald)
Mixu Paatelainen, the Hibernian manager, played in two of the highest scoring Edinburgh derbies of recent years but believes Sunday's meeting with Hearts has no chance of living up to those extreme highs and lows.
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10/15/2008
Restaurant review: Tanuki (The Oregonian)
Potent Tanuki sends a tsunami of flavors at you.
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10/15/2008
Family business closes after six decades (Almaguin News)
NEXT STEP, RETIREMENT: Pat Moore, his wife Shirley and mother Monica have served many hours behind the furniture store’s counter. Pat’s father Murray started the business in 1946 with only a toaster, a kettle and an iron in stock.
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10/15/2008
Meanderings (The Junction Eagle)
By the time The Eagle goes to press, the 2008 Harvest Moon will be waning. It is, historically, the brightest full moon of the year and is so named for the extra hours of light that allowed farmers to harvest their crops into the night.
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10/15/2008
Music Picks Oct. 16-22 | Live: Taj Majal Trio, Master Kev, Dreaming Dead, Jolie Holland, Against Me! (Salt Lake City Weekly)
Thursday 10.16 Rock Band Live: Panic at the Disco, Dashboard Confessional (E Center); Fleet Foxes (In the Venue); Streetlight Manifesto (Avalon); Eek-a-Mouse (Urban Lounge); Evidence of Dilated Peoples (Hotel); Sherwood (Velour, Provo) Friday 10.17 IAMA Mainstream Concert Series (South Valley Unitarian Universalist Church); Rotten Musicians CD Release (Kilby Court--Read Article); DJ Scott...
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| American Folklife Center, Library of Congress - Created by Congress in 1976 Archer Taylor - Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs.Archives of Folklore Discussion List - Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill - Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.Basque Folklore - Essays and links.British Columbia Folklore Society - A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.D. L. Ashliman - Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore - An Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan - E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.Folklore: An Introduction - Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.Folklore: an Online Electronic Journal - English-language archives of an informative Baltic Folklore journal published by the Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum. Material about Estonian shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, popular calendar data, and general folk belief.The Folklore of the Isle of Man - Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.Folklore Studies Association of Canada - Educational, non-profit association founded in June 1976 for the purpose of increasing education and research in the field of folklore studies in all its aspects.Journal of Folklore Research - A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.Latin-American Folklore Resources Online - Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales.Lucky W Amulet Archive - Encyclopedic resource describing and illustrating folkloric talismans and lucky charms from around the world, including horseshoe, swastika, four-leaf clover, rabbit foot, raccoon penis bone, hamsa hand, John the Conqueror root, scarab beetle, and black cat bone.New York Folklore Society - Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw - Article that contrasts the true remains of Pagan origins in the folk customs of England with those customs created or exaggerated through Pro Ethnologia - Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage - Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.Urban Folklore - Collection of essays on and images of urban folklore, including murals and graffiti, body art, urban legends, hip-hop, and folklore in movies.Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland - Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
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