April 2011
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ante diem iii idus apriles 421 B.C. — Peace of Nikias brings the first phase of the Peloponnesian war (a.k.a. the Archidamian War) to an end (by one reckoning) 52 B.C. — trial of Milo — with Cicero on his side — for the murder of Clodius (by one reckoning) 92 A.D. — martyrdom of…
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The incipit of an item from Art Daily: Following the record-shattering price of $35,922,500 achieved at Sotheby’s New York in November 2010 by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Finding of Moses (est. $3/5 million), Sotheby’s announces that the 5 May 2011 sale of 19th Century European Art in New York will be led by another masterpiece…
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From the Scotsman: Professor Ian Gray Kidd, academic. Born: 6 March 1922, in Chandernagore, French India. Died: 20 March, 2011, in Dundee, aged 89. Ian Kidd, Emeritus Professor of Greek in the University of St Andrews and Fellow of the British Academy, died peacefully in Ninewells Hospital Dundee in the early hours of Sunday, 20…
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From io9 with a tip o’ the pileus to Dorothy King … this is the bit from towards the end: The process sounds very modern, but MSG has been around for a very long time. It was a common food additive during the time of ancient Rome, added to almost all Roman dishes. The Romans…
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Given the ‘heat’ folks have been putting on news outlets for their apparent lack of critical thinking abilities in regards to such things as those lead codices (and plenty of other things which aren’t in our purview), it’s somewhat refreshing to see the Telegraph apparently trying to ‘look good’. First we read of a rather…
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