This weekend Pittsburg will be hosting two literary events in the presence of award winning author Katherine Paterson. Katherine is a major figure as far as children literature is concerned. Novels like “Bridge to Terabithia” and “The Great Gilly Hopkins” has made her quite popular. It must be noted that these two novels earned her [...]
Oct 24 2010 | Posted in
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Jane Austen is renowned for her very precise, exquisite prose, but a recent research has unearthed the fact that she was not a good speller and her grammar was very erratic. It was her editor who helped her a lot. Kathryn Sutherland, an English professor from Oxford University, studied 1,100 pages of handwritten work from [...]
Oct 23 2010 | Posted in
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The famous lexicographer Noah Webster was born on 16th October 1758 and to observe her birthday the Dictionary Project had decided to hand out Webster dictionaries to all the third grade students across the country. In the United Sates the common English dictionary is known as the Webster dictionary after Noah Webster. The name Webster [...]
Oct 20 2010 | Posted in
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The season of Noble Awards 2010 will make its debut on Monday, Stockholm, with the award for medicine and will end with the award for peace. The Nobel award for peace is, with the prize for literature, one of the most waited distinctions awarded every year. Other Nobles are given for discoveries and exceptional contributions [...]
Oct 2 2010 | Posted in
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The abstract pictures of a contested artist, banned from Louvre expo, can incite to hate and violence, declared on Wednesday, a Russian vice minister of Culture says according to Le Parisien. “The operas of Avdei Ter-Oganyan are abstract paintings (…) with inscriptions that can be understood as calls to a state strike or like an [...]
Sep 30 2010 | Posted in
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Today night, 7 pm onwards, is the Glow Santa Monica 2010. It will continue till 3 am. Glow Santa Monica 2010 is this year’s name of Nocturnal 2010 Art Festival with the theme of Glow Santa Monica. There will be many entertainers as well as attendence in huge number, but it may not be as [...]
Sep 26 2010 | Posted in
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Today is the Nocturnal 2010 Art Festival and the theme of the festival this year is entitled Glow Santa Monica. Many entertainers will be at Nocturnal 2010 festival to perform. In the Nocturnal 2009 Art Festival more than 200,000 attendance were there. In the first year of the festival there were many artists performing, but [...]
Sep 26 2010 | Posted in
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Do you want to visit a museum with paying a single penny. This Saturday it is true across the nation. All the museums including 15 in Oregon are offering free entry on Saturday. It is sponsored by nonprofit Smithsonian. About 1,500 museums and cultural institutions are being sponsored. This is the sixth year of sponsoring [...]
Sep 25 2010 | Posted in
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