February 2, 2012
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Every year I get more and more bored with the apparently obligatory rants from sports writers about the use of Roman numerals in regards to the Super Bowl (to say nothing of my annual conversation with mater in which I have to reteach her how Roman numerals work, but that’s different). And so, after paging…
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Via Dan Diffendale: Theories of the Past: The Role of History in Archaeological Approaches An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Sponsored by the University of Michigan Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup Date: March 23-24, 2012 Where: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI Understanding the human past is the goal of both archaeology and history, yet the methodologies…
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A potentially interesting item in Gizmodo begins thusly: The ancient Greeks called the thapsia garganica plant “deadly carrot,” because their camels would eat it and quickly die. The Roman emperor Nero mixed it with frankincense to treat bruises. via: Scientists Transform Deadly Plant Into Cancer Killing Smart Bomb hmmm … I’d really love to have…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Nigel Webb (via Twitter) for pointing us to an item on the history of book blurbs at The Millions … inter alia, of course, there’s the link to ancient Rome: If you needed beach reading in ancient Rome, you’d probably head down to the Argiletum or Vicus Sandaliarium, streets filled…
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ante diem iv nonas februarias 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Apronian the Executioner at Ancona … it’s also Candlemas Day … And for all you Latin teachers out there … you can present this Latin ‘distich’ quoted by Thomas Browne in Robert Chambers Book of Days (the quoting of) which predates Punxsutawney Phil (and Wiarton…
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