Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
January 5 – The Turkish government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from influential poet Nâzım Hikmet, a Marxist who died in 1963 as an exile in the Soviet Union.
March 16 – Nicholas Hughes, 47, the son of the poets Ted Hughes (who later became the British poet laureate) and Sylvia Plath, who famously committed suicide in 1963 when her son was a year old, hangs himself in his home in Alaska. He had suffered from depression.
Like her husband, Melania’s career has come a long way, and very few people know that there was a time when she posed just in her heels for a photo shoot. According to New York Post, before marrying Donald Trump, Melania posed nude in a photo spread for a French men’s magazine. During the photo shoot, she was just 25-year-old and according to Ale de Basseville, she did the steamy photo session inManhattanin1995....
he jumped out a helicopter 25,000 feet up in the air and landed in a net without a wingsuit or parachute. Aikins landed in a 100-by-100-foot net that was set up several stories above the ground inBig Sky RanchinSimi Valley...It’s the last step that I see,” Aikins, 42, said in an interview with a local Fox station inWashington state, where he lives....
UFO hunter Steven Barone continues to monitor alleged UFO traffic over the notorious UFO hotspot, the Nellis Air Force Base, from the backyard of his homein the Summerlin area of Las Vegas. Meanwhile, a prominent UFO blogger has claimed that the UFOs that Barone has filmed in a series of videos uploaded to his YouTube channel are UFO spacecraft belonging to a secret community of TallWhiteAliens being hosted secretly by the U.S....
Islamic State has called slain ArmyCaptainHumayun Khan an ‘apostate,’ 12 years after he died following a suicide bombing inIraq, while serving the U.S.A... The speech delivered by Khan was not only clear in its rebuke of Donald Trump, but also posed to him the question of whether he has sacrificed anyone in the same way that the Khan’s have sacrificed their son ... soldiers buried at Arlington National Cemeteryin May....
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Tori Bridges-Hudson recalls a time several years ago when prostitutes, pimps, drug deals and break-ins to vacant units were common happenings in her Las Vegas neighborhood. With several safety and cleanup projects funded partly by city grants, and a more active homeowners association board, vacant units have filled in, and the Crossroads 1 development is well-lit after dark and its residents feel more secure ... ....
Lahore – Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has announced to launch a countrywide movement against the government from August 6. Speaking to media after presiding a conference of opposition parties inLahore on Sunday, PAT chief said that protest demonstrations and symbolic sit-ins would be staged against the government in all main cities […]. ....
Four persons, including the custodians of the Observation Home for Juveniles, were arrested here on Sunday on charges of allowing a juvenile to escape from the custody in return for a payment of Rs.10,000. The crime came to light when the juvenile was nabbed by police recently in different cases such as bike-lifting and theft of mobile phones ... This was found through CCTV installed in the Home, the complaint from the Magistrate said....
Gabonese PresidentAli Bongo Ondimba was elected for a first term in a disputed 2009 vote following the death of his father Omar Bongo Ondimba, who had steered Gabon from 1967 ...Bongo was elected for a first term in a disputed 2009 vote following the death of his father Omar Bongo Ondimba, who had steered Gabon from 1967 and was described by critics as a corrupt despot....
She says the storybehind this book began in 1962, when she developed an eating disorder and began to keep a diary.' ... 'The second section looks at the diary as a connector and explores poetry, trust, relationships, forms of diary-keeping and sharing, behavioral health technology, creating a narrative for others, and being a participant in, and observer of, one's own life....
From the moment you hear those Giorgio Moroder-like bum-bum-bum-bums in the overture to Trevor Nunn’s retread — ahem, revival — of the 1982 Tony-winning musical “Cats,” you feel like you’ve stepped into an aural time machine back to the era of legwarmers and Atari... 9/11 Musical 'Come From Away' Heads to BroadwayinFebruary 2017 ... 9/11 Musical 'Come From Away' Heads to Broadway in February 2017....
Budget uncertainties loom over Baker County elections, as the cost of inmates at the recently built Baker County DetentionCenter threatens to deplete county reserves. Since it was built in2009, the cost to house each county inmate rose by $30 per day and the average number of inmates jailed increased by 25 people ... read more ... ....
The man, identified as Sheik Abdulla, 25, was a resident of J J Nagar in...Police said, Abdulla had already a murder for gain case registered against him in2009....