This -n- That

May 24, 2012 08:34

"It took Andrew Shaffer 10 days to write Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, his parody of the best-selling erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey." Shaffer is an author and a reviewer for Romantic Times Book Reviews magazine. The book will go on sale on July 31, under the pen name Fanny Merkin. "Unlike Anastasia Steele, the naïve heroine of Fifty Shades, his heroine, Anna Steal, is experienced and confident. Her lover, Earl Grey, smells like Coconut Lime Breeze body wash and has sexual proclivities that are shockingly tame."

Bethlehem nuns are engaged in a battle with the Israeli officials over the barrier&$8212;the Berlin Wall -esque barrier that's being built to separate Israel from the Palestinian sections minus the areas taken over by illegal settlements. The barrier will deprive a Christian community of its land and access to its convent in the valley and its monastery that's on the top of a hill. Father Ibrahim Shomali says, "When people suffer the Church must be near them. This is not politics. This is human rights. Here, 57 Christian families will lose their land. Losing the land means losing their hope."

An ancient language has been discovered on clay tablets found in the 2800-year-old ruins of a Mid-East palace in Tushan, Turkey. Evidence suggests that the language might've been spoken by people in the central and northern Zagros Mountains of western Iran in the second half of the eighth century BCE. These people may have been forcibly brought over to Turkey.

literature & poetry, languages, middle east, books

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