June 2010
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Image via Wikipedia Since I seem to have a wonky internet connection this a.m., I’ll link to this very interesting blog post based on: a study just published in PLoS ONE by Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, Pierpaolo Petrone, Lucia Pappalardo and Fabio Guarino, entitled Lethal Thermal Impact at Periphery of Pyroclastic Surges: Evidences at Pompeii. How did…
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ante diem iv kalendas quinctilias 4 A.D. –the future emperor Tiberius adopts his nephew Germanicus 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Irenaeus at Lugdunum c. 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Potamiaena 1701 — Death of Thomas Creech (translator of various Latin poets)
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Ouch: From being on location in Syria and Tunisia on a movie set to reading the Greek classics such as Pliny the Younger, local teachers and school staff have their work cut out for them this summer. via Marblehead Patch, MA – Series Review: How Will Teachers Spend Their Summers?.
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The Wall Street Journal has a piece on the top five books on alcohol, and Lowell Edmunds’ Martini book is there … inter alia: 5. Martini, Straight Up By Lowell Edmunds Johns Hopkins, 1998 In the midst of his distinguished career as a classicist, Lowell Edmunds paused to focus his critical talents on a cultural…
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As is typical, when life is most hectic comes the time when the most interesting bloggables start flashing past me on Twitter, Facebook, and in email. I can’t get to them all today, but I do want to quickly comment an item from the Telegraph regarding possible evidence of infanticide associated with remains of a Roman…
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