April 4, 2009
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From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany January 25-May 17 Meadows Museum (SMU Dallas) Exhibition website (not much there; a few general images; elsewhere SMU has a slideshow): From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany Reviews/Press Coverage: Meadows Museum Opens Most Comprehensive Exhibition of Etruscan Art Ever Shown in…
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Another claim about the ancient world, this time from something called Total Health Breakthroughs: Rocky Marciano did it. Muhammad Ali did it. And many, many other old-time boxers(and old time wrestlers for that matter) did it too. But maybe the most unique and unusual group to use this exercise — that you never heard of…
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Not sure if we’ve mentioned this Hypatia flick yet, mention of which I had misfiled quite a while ago. Agora appears to be a movie about Hypatia, set in the late 4th century A.D. and possibly portraying a Christian-inspired burning of the Library of Alexandria. There’s an official website, but all it seems to have…
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I am always bugged when newspapers, which presumably have authors, spellcheckers, and editors, mess up the spelling of a less-than-obscure name from the ancient world, to wit, a review of a Galileo exhibition in the Financial Times (emphasis mine): Ancient Greek scientific advances did nothing to diminish the power of celestial deities. Pythagorus’s conception of…
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Science Direct has an abstract of an article (which folks can get the full version of if they have the right access, of course) as follows: We report a record of atmospheric Pb deposition at a coastal site in western Iceland that spans the last two millennia. The elemental concentrations of Pb, Al, Li and…
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