October 22, 2009

  • d.m. Roger Hornsby

    From the Press-Citizen: Roger Allen Hornsby, emeritus professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, died Tuesday morning at his home in Iowa City. He was 83. Cremation has taken place. The remains will be interred in Toronto with those of his wife Jessie. A memorial service will take place in Iowa City, with time…

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  • ante diem xi kalendas novembres 4004 B.C. — 9.00 a.m. … according to Bishop Ussher, God created the universe some time during the ‘preceding night’ 50 B.C. — the ‘Civil War’ between Pompey and Caesar began (not sure of my source for this one)

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