The Shine Journal
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Answers to Trivia
Somerset Maugham's 1919 novel The Moon and Sixpence is about what great French artist?
A: Paul Gauguin.
What is the origin of the phrase, "United we stand, divided we fall"?
A: Aesop's fables. It's from the Four Oxen and the Lion, written in the sixth century B.C.
The first Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1771, devoted its first volume to "A" and "B." How many additional volumes did it take to cover "C"{ through "Z"?
A: Only two.
The work of what famous French artist hung upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York for 47 days before someone realized it?
A: Henri Matisse, in 1961. The painting was Le Bateau.
Who used the pen names Acton, Ellis and Currer Bell?
A: Anne, Emily and Charlotte Bronte.
What book did Aristotle Onassis keep on his desk in his multimillion-dollar yacht Christina?
A: A copy of J. Paul Getty's How to be Rich.
Link to these trivia questions: http://www.triviafool.com/page42.htm
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Guidelines:
All published works are also archived online and may be featured in print anthologies without additional payment. All rights revert to the authors after publication. We ask that we be advised if the work is or has been published elsewhere.
Please spellcheck and proofread your work carefully. Please avoid gratuitous sex, profanity, or work which disrespects or demeans an ethnic group, a person's sexual orientation or physical/mental challenge. In other words, although I am not a prude or easily offended, the intent of The Shine Journal is to showcase work of the highest quality. I reserve the right to define what that means for this publication.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
1.Please do NOT indent paragraphs in your short stories and articles.
2.Please SINGLE space within paragraphs and DOUBLE space between paragraphs.
3.For poems: Please SINGLE space within stanzas and DOUBLE space between stanzas.
I may make small edits to your work without notice to you. These usually include punctuation, spacing, etc. but that' s why I'm the editor. (smile)
Up to 5.00 per poem <-- depending on poem length
5.00 per story/article
5.00 per photo/artwork
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Please advise if your work is published elsewhere before you hear back from us. Previously published work is ok so long as you provide name of previous publisher.
NOTE: You may submit up to three poems or photos/artwork at a time. Prose - submit only ONE and in any case don't submit again until you have heard back on the first submission of any kind.
Fiction - Up to 1000 words. All genres welcome. One submission.
Non-Fiction - Up to 1000 words. One submission.
Poems of no more than 100 lines - rhyming ok. Submit no more than three poems at a time.
Art and Photography- One submission and no pornography- no more than three at a time.
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1.Please do NOT indent paragraphs in your short stories and articles. 2.Please SINGLE space within paragraphs and DOUBLE space between paragraphs. 3.For poems: Please SINGLE space within stanzas and DOUBLE space between stanzas.
DO NOT SUBMIT until 2-1-10. Do not use this page for contest...See contest page for rules.
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