March 2011
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From the Vassar publication called The Miscellany News: Professor Robert Pounder will lecture in the Villard Room entitled “Carl and Libbie and Bert and Ida: Re-defining Family.” The lecture will center around Pounder’s research concerning the intertwined relationships between four American archeologists in the first half of the twentieth century: Vassar alumnae, Ida Thallon Hil1,…
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Interesting project … from the Harvard Gazette: Long before the Italians rediscovered original Greek sources during the Renaissance, Arab scholars recognized the importance of ancient science and philosophy and began translating precious writings into Arabic. Now, Classics Professor Mark Schiefsky wants to transform those ancient Greek texts and their Arabic translations into an open-access digital…
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pridie kalendas apriles rites in honour of Luna at her temple on the Aventine c. 130 A.D. — martyrdom of Balbina 250 (?) A.D. — birth of the future emperor Constantius I Chlorus 307 A.D. — Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of Maximian 1596 — birth of Rene Descartes (author, of course, of that bit…
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Seriously kewl, and with obvious potential classroom use: Official Google Blog: When in Rome: New Street View imagery of historic sites in Italy and France.
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Whom the gods would destroy, they inflict with Katy Perry, I think. First of all (as I was complaining on Facebook the other day), I can no longer watch the local news because it has an ad for a radio station which implants an earworm of Katy Perry’s ‘California Girls’ (or whatever) every time I…
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