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Double take headline of the week was: Catherine Keener Has A Baby With Zeus … which now appears to have been “corrected” to: Catherine Keener Has A Baby With Poseidon I suspect the watery one is just covering up for the well-known proclivities of his brother, who probably just wants to avoid another Europa ……
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I really wish our friends to the south would lobby the powers that be to change their tax-due-date from April 15 to something more sensible (say, April 30, like it is up here in the Great Overcast North). Every year, without fail, there will be some journalist who will write something along the lines of:…
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Assorted items which have caught my eye of late: The headline says it all: Applying the wisdom of Alexander the Great to Business Intelligence Some sort of 3d modelling project for the Acropolis was recently undertaken: LPS Instrumental in 3D Modeling of the Acropolis We linked to several of Suzan Mazur’s posts relating to Robert…
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A few details are starting to leak out … the incipit of a piece from Reuters: Mads Mikkelsen, Gemma Arterton and Alexa Davalos are joining the cast of “Clash of the Titans,” the Greek-god epic being directed by Louis Leterrier. Sam Worthington stars as Perseus, who embarks on a quest to save a princess and…
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Here’s something I didn’t know … this well-known (to Classicists, anyway) painting of Cleopatra’s death by D. Pauvert: … is currently owned by the monogloved-one. Somehow I always thought MJ would have some ‘connection’ to Cleo … whatever the case, he’s putting this one up for auction. Market News: Michael Jackson’s painting of Cleopatra (Telegraph)
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