May 2010
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The Bulgarian police have busted a 41-year-old priest, who organized illegal antiques’ sale over the internet. The priest, identified at D.I., employed by the Vratsa Eparchy, managed to conduct over 1 000 illegal deals in the course of just several months, the Interior informs. He was arrested and pre-trail proceedings were launched. The police have…
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Image via Wikipedia I think the last time we heard of this was back in July of last year; seems they’re having some difficulties: Some 2,000-year-old Roman scrolls are stubbornly hanging onto their ancient secrets, defying the best efforts of computer scientists at the University of Kentucky to unlock them. The researchers have learned much…
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Joe Costello (one of the guys behind a couple of failed presidential campaigns) in Business Insider .. very Mommsen-influenced: Are We Going The Way Of The Roman Republic?.
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Image via Wikipedia The incipit of an item in the Vancouver Sun: Two Canadian scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of horned dinosaur — a seven-metre-long, magnificently adorned predecessor of the famed Triceratops — that gobbled plants near the present-day Montana-Alberta border nearly 80 million years ago. The stunning new species has…
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Constantina Katsari at the Love of History Blog (tip o’ the pileus to Terrence Lockyer) in the wake of the Baynes Meeting … inter alia: The quality of the hotel matched the depressing atmosphere of the Meeting. It became obvious from the very beginning that most of my colleagues were concerned with the situation in…
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