April 2013
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The incipit of an AFP item (via Google): Greece has pulled two ancient statues from an ongoing Olympic Games exhibition in Qatar in a dispute over nudity, a culture ministry source said on Tuesday. “The statues have already returned to Greece,” a culture ministry source told AFP, adding: “Organisers in Qatar wanted to cover up…
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Saw this in something called The Voice: AN INTERACTIVE website for children highlighting the diversity of Roman Britain will be launched tomorrow in a bid to challenge lessons on the current history curriculum. The Romans Revealed project – a collaboration between race equality think tank the Runnymede Trust and archaeologists from the University of Reading…
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Interesting item from the Art Newspaper … some clipping along the way: In 1937, the Warburg Institute, recently arrived in London from Hamburg, found itself homeless. Permission was given for it to move into the Imperial Institute, but there was no shelving, which made the library unusable. Month after month, the director Fritz Saxl sent…
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rugose (OED) famulus (Wordnik) Latinitweets: verb irregular: adsum , adesse, adfui => be here, be present http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) April 25, 2013 audire: to hear, to listen to: verb. Example sentence:Nemo surdior est quam is qui non audiet.Translation:No m… http://t.co/8fTfLXRo64 — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) April 25, 2013 cratis, cratis F wickerworkbundle…
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ante diem vii kalendas maias Robigalia — an ancient agricultural festival designed to appease the numen Robigo/Robigus who caused mildew 404 B.C. — Athens surrenders to Sparta, bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end (by one reckoning) 68 A.D. — martyrdom of Mark the Evangelist 1940 — death of Wilhelm Dorpfeld (excavator of Tiryns)
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