February 2011
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This is a rather interesting development … we’ll have to keep our eye on this to see where it goes: Turkey’s culture minister on Thursday demanded Germany return an ancient sphinx uncovered from a German archeological dig nearly a century ago or it would revoke permits for other excavations. Ertugrul Gunay told the Tagesspiegel daily…
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Kelli Rudolph speaks on “The Individual and the State” (the polutropos side to all this):
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ante diem bis vi kalendas martias Happy Bissextile!
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Continuing the series of talks from the Hauenstein Center, Dr Pazdernik speaks on the subject of the Fall of Empires:
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ante diem vi kalendas martias Regifugium — a festival which didn’t really happen on “February 24” but actually six days before the kalends of March, which was usually during a period of intercalation. Roman writers suggested this festival was a celebration of the expulsion of the Tarquins, although modern scholars have their doubts. Whatever the…
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