July 7, 2012
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Just seeing if this might be an alternative platform when I'm away from my laptop … BBC News – Gold and silver traces 'may be in Jersey coin hoard' … hopefully I'll properly blog this one later … The coin hoard which dates from 50BC weighs about three quarters of a tonne Traces of gold…
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This is one of my shameless attempts to increase traffic by using the name of a popculch icon in a post … from the incipit of an item at one of those azcentral pages (probably originally in the Republic) : Katy Perry was suspended from school for ”humping a tree”. The ‘Part of Me’ singer…
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A couple of years ago, we first mentioned the existence of some Japanese Manga (a.k.a comic, although they’re closer to graphic novels than what we North Americans think of as comics) called Thermae Romae, the premise of which is that some ancient Roman gets magically transported from a Roman bath to a modern Japanese one.…
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Adrienne Mayor has a useful item up at Wonders and Marvels: Names of Dogs in Ancient Greece … alas, my own dog’s Greek name — Tyche — doesn’t seem to make the list … then again, I wonder what the ancient Greeks/Romans would have thought about all those dogs named Zeus …
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subjacent (OED) aliquant (Dictionary.com) Latinitweets: adverb: cur? , indeclinable => why? http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) July 7, 2012 verb 4: custodio , custodire, custodivi, custoditus => guard http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) July 7, 2012 convertere: to turn around, to attract: verb. Example sentence:Eximia forma statuorum Graecorum oculos hominum c……
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