February 5, 2011
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Some useful points in this item from the Spectator: On the face of it, encouraging children to learn Latin doesn’t seem like the solution to our current skills crisis. Why waste valuable curriculum time on a dead language when children could be learning one that’s actually spoken? The prominence of Latin in public schools is…
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Dang … and here I was on Facebook this a.m. saying how wonderful it was not having had to deal with some sports person trying to be witty about Roman numerals in relation to that major sporting event. Oh well … Super Bowl: NFL, stop with the Roman numerals | Washington Post.
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Just came across this timely piece from Dominican Today: Dominican Republic’s own Egyptologist affirmed Friday that the turmoil in Egypt prevented setting up protection for the museum of antiquities for which bands of looters managed to cart off important pieces. Kathleen Martinez said the groups of looters which had formed amid the chaos even sacked…
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Not sure why humans seem to have obsessions with producing ‘top however-many lists’ of ‘whatever’. This time, it Time Magazine using the format to mark what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th anniversary. The ‘common thread’ is “world leaders whose legacies have stood the test of time”. Coming in at number two (after Gandhi) is…
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Classicist Philip Freeman weighs in: Guest opinion: What would Alexander do in Egypt today? | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com. Here’s the majority of the piece: In the winter of 332 BC, Egypt was in chaos. Years of oppressive government seemed at an end as the hated Persian rulers were hiding from angry mobs…
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