President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that he would like Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus’s remains moved from a cemetery in Provence to the Panthéon in Paris, where France’s greatest men and women are buried.
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The Swiss justice ministry decided it would not challenge a court’s decision to accept a bail offer of 4.5 million dollars to free film-maker Roman Polanski who is still waiting for a ruling on a US extradition request.
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The reality TV singing contest "Afghan Star", inspired by the popular "Pop Idol" format, has taken Afghanistan by storm. But a documentary about the show reveals the power of the resurgent Taliban, who forced the exile of the programme’s host.
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Book trailer/teaser for Repulsion Thrust by Magdalena Ball As with her first poetry collection, Quark Soup, Magdalena Ball’s Repulsion Thrust tackles big subjects: quantum physics, astronomy, time travel, ecological destruction, and technological singularity, all viewed through the lens of the h...
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www.pbs.org Watch interview outtakes from leading Louisa May Alcott scholars, including Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Geraldine Brooks (March) and John Matteson (Edens Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father). Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women' premieres Monday, ...
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was also the most important book of American nature writing since John Muir’s The Mountains of California in 1890, a pioneering work in the brief history of the American Buddhist sensibility, and a set of poems that combined freedom and elegance in a way that opened up new pathways in modern poe...
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In 1939, the Jewish Berlin émigrés Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff founded the legendary Blue Note jazz label in New York. Their unique cover designs set standards for modern photography. Now, Berlin’s Jewish Museum is devoting an exhibition to the Blue Note label. And this year’s Berlin jazz fest...
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This lecture on Books Seven and Eight of Paradise Lost focuses on Milton’s account of the Creation. The poet's persistent interest in the imagery of digestion is explored with help from the proto-scientific theories of the seventeenth-century philosopher Paracelsus. The moment at which Milton nam...
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