February 11, 2012
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From the Wanderer: One of the big decisions for students entering Old Rochester Regional (ORR) Junior High School next fall is which foreign language they will elect to study for a year and a half. Usually this decision is heavily influenced by the advice of friends, parents, and older siblings, as the elementary schools do…
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The Huffington Post had a burning question this week: via Togas On Metro: Do You Have Any Clue What These Dudes Were Up To?. .. I certainly have no idea, but the original article (with photo) has a really nice video on how to make and fold a toga …
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A couple of brief items from Standart are — as often — tantalizingly vague. First: The strong hurricane which rages near the city of Bourgas made a favour to the Bulgarian archaeologists. The hurricane has unearthed an ancient Roman town,” mayor of Bourgas Dimitar Nikolov was happy to say. The merciless wave washed away tones…
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Hot on the heels of our questioning of a claim over at Gizmodo (Camels in Greece? Really Gizmodo? Source? comes news of a paper on archaeological evidence for camel use in the Roman Empire in — of all places — Belgium! I first saw it in USA Today, but the abstract for the source article…
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From a Cambridge press release (which is being picked up by other services) comes hype for a talk which will be part of the Darwin Lectures … this one’s by Michael Scott on life in ancient Greece: There’s a general feeling that we don’t get the Greeks – ancient or modern. Many, including heads of…
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