August 2011
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Since I say the phrase so much in these ‘pages’, it seems appropriate to point out a photo of an “iridescent pileus cloud’ which was the Astronomy Picture of the Day a couple days ago: via: Astronomy Picture of the Day (August 24, 2011) Of course, it clearly gets its name from the fact that…
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Image via Wikipedia Okay … this is a strange item of TV hype for a Food Network show which (the hype) is being picked up by all sorts of papers in southeast Asia right now … the incipit from the Indian version of Yahoo: Food writer Troy Johnson has revealed that cheese is not only…
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ante diem vii kalendas septembres 55 B.C. — Julius Caesar invades Britain, but doesn’t stick around very long 1875 — Birth of John Buchan, 1st Baron of Tweedsmuir and Governor-General of Canada … and author of a decent biography of Augustus
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In and around the Classical blogosphere t’other day: Round-Up: August 24 August 24, 2011 (Laura Gibbs) Make Your Own Fake Lead Codex August 24, 2011 Dorothy King Bibliography: Latin Pronunciation August 24, 2011 classicslibrarian You can’t dream in Latin… August 24, 2011 jm Ancient and modern August 27, 2011 (Peter Jones) Davies on the metal…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Adrian Murdoch who pointed the Twitterati to an item at Jonathan Knott’s blog (now added to the curated blogroll) with the above title. The post includes a link to a pdf version of the article (which is also by Jonathan Knott) from the July 2011 edition of Club UK Magazine.…
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