January 4, 2013
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 350,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 6 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than…
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This is another Cambridge Journals thing … the European Review has an issue on ancient medicine and the following are free (all the papers are pdf): Heikki Solin, Was there a Medical School at Salerno in Roman Times? Vivian Nutton, Galen and Roman Medicine: or can a Greek become a Latin? Lola Ferre, The Jewish…
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From Business Insider: Despite the recent spate of gun violence to grip the city, some of Chicago’s top attorneys plan to spend their time arguing a 2,400-year-old free speech case. Dan Webb of Winston and Strawn and Robert Clifford, the former chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation will represent Socrates Jan. 31…
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Judith Weingarten’s Zenobia Blog often gets mentioned in our Blogosphere ‘forwards’ … the blog just turned six yesterday (congratulations!) and if you’ve never checked it out: Zenobia: Empress of the East
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USA Today has some hype for Brendan Foley’s AIA paper today, including this tantalizing paragraph: […] Along with vase-like amphora vessels, pottery shards and roof tiles, Foley says, the wreck also appears to have “dozens” of calcified objects resembling compacted boulders made out of hardened sand resting atop the amphorae on the sea bottom. Those…
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