March 2010
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Saw this inter alia in a piece in Time Magazine: Researchers from other disciplines have begun approaching the Galaxy Zoo team for help sorting their own masses of information. With Galaxy Zoo’s assistance, the Royal Observatory Greenwich just launched Solar Stormwatch, which asks volunteers to track solar explosions captured on video by NASA’s STEREO spacecraft.…
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Currently rogueclassicism is a three-column blog. I’m pondering going to a four-column template in order to incorporate a number of items that I post to twitter which might be of interest which generally don’t get ‘full treatement’ at rc. Would four columns be ‘too much’? (the template provided would put content in the left column…
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Brief item from the ANA: A restoration project of the royal mecropolis and the palace-city of Aigai within the larger archaeological site of Vergina, north-central Greece, will be financed with seven million euros by the National Strategic Reference Framework NSRF. Vergina is the burial site of ancient Macedonian kings, including the tomb of Philip II.The…
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… in Classical Greek: Former KGB spy buys “The Independent” / Health care bill to be voted again / Heroine’s king arrested / Bin Laden threatens Americans again.
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ante diem vii kalendas apriles 1546 — death of Thomas Elyot (compiler of the first major (?) Latin-English dictionary) 1859 — birth of A.E. Housman
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