January 31, 2009

  • Pantheon Sundial?

    Alun Salt mentioned this on Twitter and I finally have time to explore it a bit … A piece in New Scientist relates Robert Hannah’s suggestion that the Pantheon served as a sundial of some sort. Here’s an excerpt: When Robert Hannah of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, visited the Pantheon in…

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  • “Lost” Latin Found

    It’s been the buzz of all the lists over the past week, so if you missed it, ecce: prisoner type one: Quare non sunt vestitus eis? prisoner type two: Tace! blonde: Cognoscitis qui sumus? … there was apparently some later as well; I can’t find that one yet, but the blond (the character’s name is…

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