January 26, 2011
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Tip o’ the pileus to Richard Campbell for sending along a nice little feature on the Alexandrian ‘engineer’ at io9: The Greek engineer who invented the steam engine 2,000 years ago.
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… with a salutary warning: 10 Roman Beauty Tips! (Girls, DON'T try these at home) http://bit.ly/eW8zT9 — Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc) January 25, 2011
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Not sure why there is such apparent surprise at this sort of thing any more … via the BBC: A 1,700-year-old skeleton shows that people of African descent have lived in Warwickshire for far longer than was previously thought, experts say. The skeleton of an African man was discovered buried in Tiddington Road, Stratford-upon-Avon, in…
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Image via Wikipedia ante diem vii kalendas februarias Sementivae or Paganalia (day ?) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident…
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