January 16, 2009
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Apparently the same folks (maybe) who did the revoting on Wonders of the World a few years back are trying the same thing with the Seven Wonders of Nature. The Greek press is all agog because Mount Olympus made it past the first stage of voting. Glancing at the official list, others which might be…
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I’ve often toyed with the idea of putting together a ‘Classical Stock Portfolio’ because the business pages regularly turn up in my scans with stuff that is clearly Classically-inspired. The latest is a piece on Genco Shipping, which includes a list of its ships: Interesting ‘imperial’ bent to those recently-named members of the fleet. Interesting…
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For some reason over the past week or so there has been a spate of reviewish sorts of things of plays etc. with a Classical focus … here are the links in no particular order: Pencil This In (Gothamist on The Judgment of Paris; includes a link to a video preview) Euripides’ ‘Medea’ reborn at…
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A piece in the Guardian, lamenting passed sportscasters mentions, inter alia: Not only did he, just before his death, criticise the BBC’s plan to phase out commentator Clive Everton in favour of brasher celebrity names, back in 1998 he stormed off the set of Channel 4’s Under The Moon after host Danny Kelly suggested the…
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