September 8, 2012
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No, the Ides of September (when the NHL collective bargaining agreement expires) are NOT on September 15 … geez … take a course or something: Beware the Ides of… September???? (Hockey Buzz)
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posted with permission: The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies. By William M. Murray. Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxv + 356. Hardcover, $45.00/£30.00. ISBN 978-0-19-538864-0 . Reviewed by Anthony J. Papalas, East Carolina University The trireme, a “three,” was…
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Okay … it’s a gloomy Saturday and my spiders have definitely brought back something strange (again) … still, I’m sure someone can write a term paper about it (or at least identify the tragedy being performed):
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Brief reports filtering in of a beam falling from the ceiling in one of the rooms at the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii. No reports of actual damage, apparently, other than then beam itself falling. Here’s a few examples (all in Italian, and all with a photo): Pompei, cede trave in Villa Misteri…
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ante diem vi idus septembres ludi Romani (day 4) ca 15 B.C. — traditional date of the birth of Mary, mother of Jesus
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