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The Rotary Club of Summit County has announced the winners of is annual high school short story and poetry contests, which are designed to encourage creative literacy among students. The prizes for first, second and third places were $250, $150 and $100, respectively. Short story contest Maggie Butler, home-school student, “The Thought of Plummeting from an Impossible Height” Poetry contest Sam Burke, Snowy Peaks, “Mascne” and Maleena Mero, Summit High School, “Waves” (tie) Maggie Butler, home-school student, “Sisyphus” A special poetry award also was given to students in Kari...

Benjamin Myers' Male Tears re-evaluates masculinity 15 May, 2021 12:00 AM 3 minutes to read By: David Herkt Masculinity is currently being re-evaluated. Balances are changing and this reassessment is reflected by book publishing. New fiction releases, particularly, are now more often written by women and fiction book awards reflect this. Benjamin Myers, however, is a prize-winning British male writer and his work is also a part of this re-calibration, approaching the subject from an entirely different angle. Myers' work is often grounded in the natural world and his prose is...

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Since its discovery in the 1800s the  Meidum Geese  has been described as “Egypt’s  Mona Lisa ,” said Dr. Romilio. According to the new study, Nefermaat was the eldest son of pharaoh Sneferu of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty: “a vizier, royal seal bearer and a prophet of Bastet, feline-headed goddess of protection.” The now  extinct species  of goose depicted in his tomb had “red, black and white markings on its face, grey wings with white marks and a speckled red breast distinct from modern red-breasted geese.” Supposedly extinct goose species as depicted in ancient Egyptian...

© C.K. Wilkinson. ‘Meidum Geese’, Chapel of Itet, mastaba of Nefermaat and Itet (Dynasty 4), Meidum, Egypt.As a University of Queensland researcher examined a 4600-year-old Egyptian painting last year, a speckled goose caught his eye. UQ scientist Dr Anthony Romilio said the strange but beautiful bird was quite unlike modern red-breasted geese ( Branta ruficollis), with distinct, bold colours and patterns on its body, face, breast, wings and legs. "The painting,Meidum Geese, has been admired since its discovery in the 1800s and described as 'Egypt's Mona Lisa'," he said. "Apparently no-o...