July 25, 2010
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So there was a bit of twitter chatter about the Daily Mail’s claims about celebrity tattoos ‘causing’ a revival of interest in Latin, and it was decided that we’d start a new feature here which possibly is a bit more realistic in regards to Latin and tattoos by showcasing the Latin/Classical ink festooning the dermises…
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This one just started filtering in this a.m. … here’s the Reuters coverage: A team of marine archaeologists using sonar scanners have discovered four ancient shipwrecks off the tiny Italian island of Zannone, with intact cargoes of wine and oil. The remains of the trading vessels, dating from the first century BC to the 5th-7th…
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The incipit and a bit of an item in the Guardian: As experts warn the ongoing cuts in the public sector could result in record levels of graduate unemployment; despondent graduate jobseekers may find comfort in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Of course, Nietzsche was a…
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In today’s Scotsman: IT IS the dead language of ancient Rome, the Declaration of Arbroath, law books and medical terminology. But a new campaign is using that most modern of inventions – Facebook – to wage a battle to save Latin in Scottish schools. An online bid to protect qualifications in the study of the…
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