April 24, 2010
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A doctor had some 930 archaeological artifacts in his possession … seems to be one of those ‘private museum’ situations: I carabinieri del nucleo tutela patrimonio culturale della Sicilia e del Comando provinciale dei carabinieri di Agrigento hanno sequestrato 930 reperti archeologici all’interno dell’abitazione di un medico agrigentino. Secondo quanto ha spiegato il capitano Giuseppe…
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The Greek p.m. comments on the bailout: On Friday, Papandreou said he hoped accessing the rescue package would give Greece the breathing room it needs to move forward on his reform agenda, which includes modernizing the Greek state and tackling the country’s pension morass. Evoking the ancient hero Odysseus and his epic journey home from…
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Here’s the spoiler (the conclusion) of a nice article in Philosophy Now: Suddenly Pythagoras came to a stop. A vast bean field stretched before him. He stood frozen, uncertain what to do. His eyes focused on a single bean dangling inches from his papyrus- covered feet. So true was he to his ideals that, even…
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Brief text accompanying this video (sans commentary) from the Times of Malta: Government workers stumbled on an ancient tomb during excavation works at Ġnien Ħal Warda in Attard this morning. The tomb including skeletal remains and an amphora.Attard Local Council, which is responsible for the works, immediately alerted the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, whose experts…
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Ousmane Diop, chairman of the Modern Languages Department of the Roxbury Latin School, was installed as the Stanley J. Bernstein Professor of Modern Languages on April 13. Diop is a longtime Roxbury Latin teacher and a resident of Roslindale. A native of Senegal, Diop joined the Roxbury Latin faculty in 1994, a graduate of Oberlin…
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