March 2011
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One of the things which increasingly bothers me is when assorted otherwise-respectable media outlets try to hide hype for a television program in an article which otherwise is masquerading as news. In almost every situation where such hype needs to be so ‘hidden’, it’s for a program which would otherwise be dismissed as having a…
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ante diem vii idus martias Festival of Mars (day 9) which included another procession of the Salian priests around the city 320 A.D. — martyrdom of Candidus and the other “Forty Armenian Martyrs”
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There’s a couple of versions of this one kicking around; the incipit from a piece in the Times of India: Fragments of amphoras – the two-handled jar with narrow neck used by ancient Greeks and Romans to carry wine or oil – have been found in Junnar, about 80 km from the city, confirming ancient…
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ante diem viii idus martias Festival of Mars continues (day 8) 305 A.D. — martyrdom of Philemon and companions 1757 – death of Thomas Blackwell (Classical scholar)
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… my feeds seem to be lagging today … Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the guy who had to deal with a major natural disaster: Titus: Emperors of Rome
