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Here’s the second installment … if you missed the first couple, ecce; as always, click for larger versions:
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About a month ago we first caught wind of and shared a summer Latin course ad created by Serena Witzke and Ted Gellar-Goad … in subsequent conversations, it turns out the ad was part of a series, so for the next few days we’ll be featuring a couple of them a day for your enjoyment…
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A lengthy article in Smithsonian Magazine about the rise of the chicken to its current place of culinary dominance has scattered Classical allusions (most of which are familiar) of interest: The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the…
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Worth a look: 10 Weirdest Ways That Ancient Rulers Died (io9) … a couple of them aren’t ancient, really …
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I’ll admit I’m not a major baseball fan, but this one seems worthy of some rc love. This story actually broke last week but I searched in vain for a photo … here’s the incipit of a piece in the Tampa Bay Times: The scary-looking, metal, medieval-style helmet mask that sits in Carlos Peña’s locker…