August 2010
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Image via Wikipedia From an interview in the New York Times: Gail Collins: Your new biography of Cleopatra is coming out this fall, right? I’m reading it, and I’m pretty sure that from now on, whenever I hear elected officials complain about the treachery of their opponents, I’m just going to say: “Ha! You should…
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From Adnkronos: Aerial photos taken on Monday from a police surveillance plane have revealed what is believed to be a large ancient Roman settlement near the eastern Italian city of Macerata. Archaeologists say the site could be part of the mysterious city of Pausulae. The city is described by 1st century AD historian Pliny The…
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This just in … from Jim “Meech” K: … for all you fans of Simonides …
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One of the reasons for the paucity of posts over the past while was that I was in a very low/expensive bandwidth situation which didn’t give me the luxury of checking stories which landed in my mailbox. This excerpt from some sort of travel site is a prime example: This in itself would be reason…
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Image via Wikipedia An uncharacteristically-not-sensational item from the Daily Mail: Historians are becoming increasingly convinced that a villa uncovered 20 miles from London was once home to Britain’s Roman Governor. Since Lullingstone Roman Villa was first uncovered in the 1930s experts believed it was once the home of a leading Roman or wealthy Briton, but…
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