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Source: Corvallis Gazette-Times

Boomeranging a bunch of balloon birds. How to kill two birds with one boomerang If you are a typical American like me, you probably have never taken the boomerang seriously. It is just an Australian curiosity, a thing that mystifies w ...
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When a Syllabus is not a Syllabus— Ancient Literacies Part One

Source: Patheos Blogs

[1]The Latin word syllabus derives from the Greek word sillybos/ sillyboi. What it refers to in the first instance is the tag attached to a papyrus roll by which its contents is identified. One example of an act ...
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Art can add whimsy to a garden

Source: The Eagle-Tribune | North Andover, MA

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Sprinting past an alligator drinking a soda pop and a T-Rex playing guitar, I lean toward a family of colorful metal toadstools that come to my knee. "Aren't those great?" asks Jim Honold as he ushers ...
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Source: The Moderate Voice

The entire blogosphere has been coopted into the narrow agenda of a few individuals and the nation’s issues are thrust to the side as less important than their personal grievance, and coordinated, timed “blog against” an obscure individual is made ...
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Source: Santa Fe New Mexican

Michael Garcia was reading about an emperor more capricious than the Roman Commodus, crueler than Vlad the Impaler and deadlier than Joseph Stalin. The emperor, an arbitrary afflicter, pardoned no one, didn't discriminate based on creed, color, ...
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A Pandect of Gripes: Crucifixions, Earthquakes, Open Access, and Outreach

Source: Rogue Classicism

Okay … this one hit the internets yesterday and I’ve been nursing vipers in my breast ever since. It begins with an item at Discovery Newswhich begins thusly: The front side (recto) of Papyrus 1, a New Testament manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. Mos ...
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Mummification Ancient Egypt

Source: OpPapers.com

The topic that I have chosen to research is the mummification process of Ancient Egypt. The question that I have formulated about this topic is “How has the mummification process evolved during the New Kingdom period (18th to 20th Dynasties)?” Du ...
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Source: BlogTalkRadio

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Source: GameSpy

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