Video
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My spiders brought back this video from Youtube showing (rather hastily in spots) what the various monuments of Rome were like before Mussolini et al started digging … kind of interesting from a ‘see how far we’ve come’ point of view:
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Not sure how long this one will be up on Youtube, so it might be a good idea to watch it now … my review follows: We’ll begin by noting that when this one first appeared on the BBC a week or two ago, it seemed to be universally-panned by folks on twitter and facebook.…
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Meant to put this one up a while ago … Caroline Bird talks about her interpretation/rewrite of Trojan Women:
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Tip ‘o the pileus (I think) to Liz Gloyn for sharing this one on Twitter … something to look at between courses of walking bird, if you’re stateside … you’ll laugh until you stop:
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I’m still trying to track down the official Papal Bull which established the Latin Academy which the pope recently decreed, but until then, this Rome Reports video is actually really good: … I wonder what would happen if they asked the same question on the streets of some North American city (both knowledge-wise and ‘accent-wise’)
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