July 2009
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While poking around to see if there was a way to make links to the Colbert Report more ‘universal’ (i.e. via Youtube) I came across this funny Yes, Minister clip (I used to watch this show … can’t recall ever seeing this episode) … there’s some good Latin stuff here (after a couple of minutes…
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At the end of a funny clip commenting on the Pope’s recent wrist injury, Stephen Colbert sends a Gregorian Chantesque ‘get well card’ to the pontiff … You can watch the clip via the Comedy Network (Canada) or Comedy Central (US) … not sure about other jurisdictions (July 22 edition)…
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seen on Ioudaios: JUDAEA AND ROME IN COINS, 65 BCE TO 135 CE An International Conference 13 & 14 September 2010 A two-day conference with the theme Judaea and Rome in Coins, 65 BCE to 135 AD, will be held at the premises of Spink and Son Ltd. in London on Monday 13th and Tuesday…
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Okay … this is a bizarre one (to me anyway) in the myriad ways it’s being covered. The Italian Daily l’Espresso has been publishing some ‘sex tapes’ which apparently were made by one of Silvio Belusconi’s paramours, and in one of them, he reveals that there are Phoenician (Punic, more likely … possibly even Greek)…
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I’m hoping we’ll get more on this one, but many of these items reported by ANSA never seem to make it beyond ANSA’s own English coverage: Searches along the Cadiz coast have led Spanish archaeologist Joaquim Casellas to find the ancient port of Trafalgar, 50 metres below the waves and partly buried at a depth…
rogue classicism 