January 2009
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encomiastic (Worthless Word for the Day) palatable (Merriam Webster) qualitative (Dictionary.com) endemic (endemic)
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CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SEMINAR PROGRAMME Spring Semester 2009 Cardiff School of History and Archaeology Humanities Building Colum Drive Cardiff CF10 3EU All meetings start at 5.10 p.m. Monday 2 February 2009 room 4..45 Alex Smith (Cardiff) Eclipses and mentalities in the Ancient World Monday 2 March 2009 room 4.45 Dr Suzanne Turner (Cardiff), Absent presences on…
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We last heard of this last summer, when some piece from the shipwreck were being moved to the facility at Portsmouth to be restored. Now we seem to be getting brief notices that the restoration process has actually begun. Charles Barker (of the Mary Rose Centre) dixit: It has an elm keel, an oak frame…
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For those of you who have been wondering — as I have — why we haven’t heard from our favourite Carmelite lately, the word has hit assorted lists that Father Reginald Foster has been having major health problems since suffering a fall last summer. This past weekend, apparently, he suffered a seizure of some sort…
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It’s been one of those days followed by one of those evenings (a power failure seems to have done something so my computer alone of all the wireless devices in our house won’t connect) so I’ll start with one that’s been also bugging me all day since I read it this a.m.. A piece in…
rogue classicism 