June 24, 2012
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The National Hockey League in North America has an annual thing in January called the Winter Classic, wherein they go old school and actually play hockey outside. I think a town in Croatia just may trump that … from AFP via Yahoo: An ancient Roman amphitheatre in the northern Croatian port of Pula is preparing…
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I’m kind of confused why this didn’t get picked up in more sources and am dismayed at the lack of detail … the original comes from Corriere della Sera: Più giovane di 17 secoli. La Lupa capitolina, statua simbolo di Roma, raffigurata mentre allatta i gemelli Romolo e Remo, è stata scolpita nel Medioevo. Cioè…
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Amicus noster Arthur Shippee did his archaeologist imitation and stumbled on this article by Peter Dodington in American Educator magazine … it is surely must reading for anyone — especially at the grade school level, but also beyond — who has had to justify the study of Classics: Knowing Ourselves: How Classics Strengthen Schools and…
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borborygmus (Merriam Webster) enchiridion (OED) instauration (Dictionary.com) Latinitweets: carmen: poem, song: noun. Example sentence:Quaedam carmina sunt bona; plura sunt mala.Translation:Some poems are… http://t.co/fbcSre35 — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) June 24, 2012 preposition: pro , + ablative => in front of, for, in return for http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) June 24, 2012 nīmīrum adv.…
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ante diem viii kalendas quinctilis under Servius — dedication of two temples to Fors Fortuna (and associated rites thereafter) 1 B.C. — birth of John the Baptist (traditional date) 79 A.D. — dies imperii of the emperor Titus 109 A.D. — the Aqua Traiana are officially dedicated 1741 — Birth of Alexander Adam (Classics educator)…
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