The incipit of a piece in the apparently indicatively-named LocalIQ: Have you ever imagined Cleopatra, in 26 BC, staring up at the sky at Polaris — the North Star and bright and pointy handle of the constellation called The Little Dipper — and wondered how different it looked to her than it does to you [...]
Archive for August 29, 2009
Excerpt from an interesting item about a burial from Aigai in the Associated Press: The find in the ruins of Aigai came a few meters (yards) from last year’s remarkable discovery of what could be the bones of Alexander the Great’s murdered teenage son, according to one expert. Archaeologists are puzzled because both sets of [...]
