December 10, 2010
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Nice article in Scientific American: via Archimedes Coins “Eureka!” in the Nude–and Other Crazy Ah-Ha Moments of Science | Scientific American.
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From the Waterloo Record: It was a time of change, a time when the developments of a single culture were felt, as never before, beyond its borders. The Hellenistic Age spans the roughly 300 years between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC —…
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This one was kind of difficult to track down because the coverage in English was so vague. The inital report in Earthtimes went thusly: The Italian government is going to court in Berlin this week to claim an early Greek metal helmet, which it claims was stolen from an archaeological site in Italy in 1993,…
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Haven’t had a post from the Merriam-Webster ‘Ask the Editors’ folks for a while … they just hit my inbox with an explanation of Xmas: If you need a bit more auctoritas, N.S. Gill recently blogged in much the same spirit …
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ante diem iv idus decembres The tribunes of the plebs would enter their office on this day during the Roman Republic. ca 300 A.D. — martyrdom of Carpophorus
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