January 2013
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From Business Insider: Despite the recent spate of gun violence to grip the city, some of Chicago’s top attorneys plan to spend their time arguing a 2,400-year-old free speech case. Dan Webb of Winston and Strawn and Robert Clifford, the former chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation will represent Socrates Jan. 31…
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Judith Weingarten’s Zenobia Blog often gets mentioned in our Blogosphere ‘forwards’ … the blog just turned six yesterday (congratulations!) and if you’ve never checked it out: Zenobia: Empress of the East
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USA Today has some hype for Brendan Foley’s AIA paper today, including this tantalizing paragraph: […] Along with vase-like amphora vessels, pottery shards and roof tiles, Foley says, the wreck also appears to have “dozens” of calcified objects resembling compacted boulders made out of hardened sand resting atop the amphorae on the sea bottom. Those…
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From Hurriyet: A marble sculpture head of Artemis from the fourth century BC has been uncovered in the ancient city of Alabanda as the archeological excavations there come to a close. In some of the excavations made at the site, the doors of the ancient city were uncovered, the head of the excavation team, Aydın…
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From a University of Cincinnati press release: A team of international archaeologists including Christian Cloke of the University of Cincinnati is providing new insights into successful and extensive water management and agricultural production in and around the ancient desert city of Petra, located in present-day Jordan. Ongoing investigations, of which Cloke is a part, are…
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