January 2010
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Tip o’ the pileus to Randolph Bragg for this bit o’ fun: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Medical Case Histories on Mount Olympus..
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A nice video from the BBC (tip o’ the pileus to Adrian Murdoch) more about “BBC News – Secret source of a Roman a…“, posted with vodpod Our earlier coverage here …
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ante diem iv kalendas februarias 164 B.C. — death of Antiochus Epiphanes (according to one reckoning) 1 B.C. — departure of Gaius Caesar to the east (?) 275 A.D. — death of Aurelian (according to one reckoning, which doesn’t seem right)
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An excerpt from Mary Beard’s latest: Now it is the turn of King’s College London – which is planning (very confidentially, so far) to lose up to 22 posts in Arts and Humanities by the end of the academic year. This means that at least one subject (which ought to be a protected species) will…
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From the BBC (January 27): Dr Margaret Rule clearly remembers receiving a phone call from diver Richard Keen on Christmas Day 1982 saying he had found a ship wreck. The ship was located in the mouth of St Peter Port and was suspected to be a medieval barge. Closer inspection in summer 1983 revealed it…
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