July 28, 2010
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Nice introduction to the subject in Smithsonian Magazine: Reading the Writing on Pompeii’s Walls |Smithsonian Magazine.
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Wow … the archaeologist types in Wales keep coming up with discoveries. In the past week, I’ve read of three major finds … typically, things from Wales don’t seem to make it beyond the local papers, but the first two items are a bit different. Here’s the Telegraph coverage about a Roman villa find in…
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Image via Wikipedia As I dig deeper into my pile of things I’ve marked with little purple question marks, I find an interesting item I first came across toward the end of May. Something called the Londonist had a feature called An Historic London Elephant Parade which included this in its timeline: 43 AD: Emperor…
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I’ve got all sorts of little items lingering in my mailbox and need some principle of organization for them, I think. First, though, we should draw your attention to a couple of podcast type things … the first: Evaluating Alexander the Great is actually the free ‘first lecture’ in a series at learnoutloud.com. This particular…
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Inter alia: -Agamemnon. According to legend, this ancient Greek king sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia so the ships would sail. Her website might have run more along the lines of DoNotMakeMyDadYourHereditaryMonarch.com … I’m sure there’d be pop up ads from carpet distributors and ax manufacturers … via PostPartisan – Other famous dads who might have inspired…
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