October 19, 2012
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This looks interesting: Dr. Dwight Castro, Westminster professor of classics, presented “De Re Publica Romana et Re Publica Americana: Some Surprising Discoveries” at the Faires Faculty Forum on Oct. 10. The Founders of the American Republic looked to the ancient Roman Republic as an inspiration, and sometimes as a model, when designing and “selling” the…
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There have been a couple this week … check this thing out from the Telegraph: Patrick White is one of the great novelists of the 20th century, on a par with his fellow Nobel laureates William Faulkner, Halldór Laxness and Thomas Mann; and yet, 100 years after his birth, his name seems temporarily and inexplicably…
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The incipit of a piece from Portugal News: Archaeologist Cristóvão Fonseca explained that the fieldwork, which is due to last two weeks, will comprise an initial phase of visual prospection and data recording with photographs and drawings, and the excavation of artefacts that may be found on the surface. It is believed one of the…
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Given how often we hear of Bulgaria actively promoting archaeological finds, this story from Novinite seems somewhat strange (especially the stuff at the end): A real archaeological treasure has popped out underneath the “Struma” highway construction works in western Bulgaria. Archaeologists at the site have managed a last-minute rescue operation, pulling “under the nose” of…
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veloce (Dictionary.com) vinolency (Wordnik) Latinitweets: verb 4: advenio , advenire, adveni => arrive http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) October 19, 2012 imperator: commander, general, emperor: noun. Example sentence:Ave, imperator, morituri te salutamus.Translation… http://t.co/IGoJ4QYr — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) October 19, 2012
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