June 22, 2010
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If you ever have folks who doubt the ability of someone being able to recite Homer alone: ‘Divinely Inspired’ Young Tibetan Sings World’s Longest Poem | Huffington Post.
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Onomastics Corner has a brief item on some of the ‘better’ Latin cognomina: via Onomastics Corner – John Derbyshire – The Corner on National Review Online. … of course, if you want more of this sort of thing (and I’m sure you do), check out N.S. Gill’s large list …
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Image via Wikipedia Brief item from York Press: A SKELETON – thought to be the remains of a Roman gladiator – has gone on display in York. The skeleton is on display at the Jorvik Viking Centre from today. It is one of 80 skeletons unearthed in the city by York Archaeological Trust over the…
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Image via Wikipedia ante diem x kalendas quinctilis 217 B.C. — Ptolemy IV defeats Antiochus III at the battle of Raphia (by one reckoning) 168 B.C. — Lucius Aemilius Paulus defeats Perseus at the Battle of Pydna, bringing the Third Macedonian War to an end 109 A.D. — the Baths of Trajan open
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