April 2009
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In case you missed it in one of the other sources, David Parsons — of ARLT fame — recently completed his c.v.. His son has written a very moving blogpost at David’s erstwhile blog … worth a read. Another online colleague whom I never met who will be missed …
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This one — from FYROM/Macedonia probably has more bona fides lurking in it than claims of Alexander’s tomb … from Balkan Travellers: Detailed archaeological excavations began at the thermal Roman bath in Bansko near the south-eastern Macedonian town of Strumica. The site is being studied and analysed so that a project for its complete reconstruction…
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ante diem xvi kalendas maias ludi Cereri (day 5) 43 B.C. — Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) is hailed as Imperator for the first time 69 A.D. — suicide of the emperor wannabe Otho (this might have occured on April 17) 304 A.D. — martyrs of Saragossa 1928 — death of Jane Ellen Harrison (Prolegomena…
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I really wish our friends to the south would lobby the powers that be to change their tax-due-date from April 15 to something more sensible (say, April 30, like it is up here in the Great Overcast North). Every year, without fail, there will be some journalist who will write something along the lines of:…
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Okay … this is a long-developing story. Last year — almost to the day — Zahi Hawass was all excited about some major underground tomb at Tabusiris Magna; it seemed to be building on something announced a couple of years before that. A month later, we were pretty much getting the same story. Then we…
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