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A Flower to Remember http://www.metmuseum.org/... https://lh3.googleusercon...

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"The corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is described as an annual weed that thrives on wastelands, roadsides, and neglected fields, and it is most famously associated with battlefields. As a denizen of disturbed lands, the poppy was one of the first and most striking colonizers of a trampled and scarred landscape. Its luminescent red flowers symbolize the blood of the fallen and serve as a reminder of the beauty of life amidst the devastation of war. Dubbed Flanders, or remembrance, poppy, the corn poppy is a symbol of the First World War in contemporary culture." - maitani - -

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PANDEKTIS http://pandektis.ekt.gr/d... http://pandektis.ekt.gr/d...

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"PANDEKTIS welcomes you to the National Hellenic Research Foundation major digital collections of Greek history and civilization. The collections have been developed by the Institute of Neohellenic Research, the Institute of Byzantine Research and the Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity. The National Documentation Centre supports the collections' digital form." - maitani - -

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Alter Main, von der Vogelsburg aus gesehen https://lh3.googleusercon...

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HOW DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN? MOSTLY, JUST MAKE UP WORDS http://www.atlasobscura.c...

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"It's more correct to say, for instance, that people living in England developed a new accent than that Americans "lost" their British way of speaking. Not long after the Revolutionary War, it became common among British people to drop r sounds—"card" became "caahd"—while Americans held onto their r-pronouncing rhoticity." - maitani - -

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Indo-Europeans, Red in Tooth & Claw http://www.unz.com/gnxp/i... http://www.unzcloud.com/w...

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"The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics, by Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis is a pretty one-sided monograph. The reason, as admitted by the authors, is that they believe a certain sector of academia and the middle-brow reading public are not exhibiting enough skepticism about the application of Bayesian phylogenetics in linguistics. To a great extent The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics is a book length rejoinder to a paper published in 2003 to great acclaim, Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin. It’s basically a short letter to Nature." - maitani - -

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A Calendar Page for August 2015 http://britishlibrary.typ... http://a3.typepad.com/6a0...

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"It’s harvest time on this month’s calendar page: two male peasants are reaping fully-grown wheat with sickles, while a female peasant is binding it together in sheaves. A cart drawn by two horses is passing by in the background. August’s religious festivals are gruesomely illustrated in a series of roundels to the right: in the second, fourth and fifth roundels, we see St Laurence being roasted alive (note the figure to the right, fanning the flames with a pair of bellows), St Bartholomew being flayed alive, and St John the Baptist about to be beheaded (with a female attendant waiting nearby with a platter). For more on the depiction of these saints’ martyrdom, check out our earlier blog posts: Happy St Laurence’s Day, St Bartholomew and Bookbindings, and Don’t Lose Your Head. Other feast days illustrated this month are St Peter in Chains (celebrating his liberation from captivity by an angel) and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The Zodiac symbol for this month – Virgo the Virgin – is at the top of the page." - maitani - -

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Upon This Rock: What the stone edicts of Ashoka tell us about India’s great Buddhist ruler http://www.caravanmagazin...

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"Cascading down the rocks is a dramatic waterfall of words. More than a hundred lines in the ancient Brahmi script are imprinted across several of the boulders. Large portions of this scrawl are exceedingly clear, the characters boldly etched across the rock face. Some segments have deteriorated, while a few of the lines have been defaced by modern graffiti. Yet not even the English and Telugu scribbles of contemporary visitors can diminish the overwhelming impression of messages from antiquity created by the profusion of these ancient words. This copious transcription is part of a royal enunciation. The words and phrases that comprise it were composed by and inscribed at the instructions of Ashoka, the sorrowless one, the third emperor of the dynasty of the Mauryas, and ruler of a terrain that stretched, at one point, from Taxila in the north-west to Kalinga in the east." - maitani - -

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Can we decipher the "meaning" of ancient buildings? http://wideurbanworld.blo... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"Many people wonder about the "meaning" of ancient buildings and sites. Why was the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan built? Was it dedicated to a specific god? What meaning did it have to the people who built it, and those to witnessed ceremonies there for centuries afterword? I am a skeptic about talk of ancient "meanings" of this sort (see a previous post about high-level meanings.) I agree with my colleagues Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (1993) that this kind of religious symbolism and meaning cannot usually be deciphered without written texts that explain ancient myths and beliefs. There are no such texts from Teotihuacan, so it is unlikely that we can figure out just what this pyramid meant in ancient times. But we do have some clues. This position is explained in general terms by architectural theoretician Amos Rapoport, one of the top scholars on wide urban topics and one of my heroes." - maitani - -

It's always interesting to look at how various prejudices (about people, places, gender, occupations) can color how people study and look at ancient sites and remains. I wonder how many times the truth of things is obscured by our own inability to correctly interpret how another society saw itself. - Jennifer D. - -

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Variations on Briseis: Special Homeric Poetics Edition http://homermultitext.blo... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"This year's book is Iliad 19, which happens to feature the only words spoken in the poem by Briseis, the woman whose seizure by Agamemnon in book 1 initiates the entire plot of the Iliad. In my 2002 book, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, I used the character of Briseis as an entry point for discussing the multiformity of the epic tradition and how that affects our understanding of the poetics of the Iliad." - maitani - -

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Greek Myth Comix https://greekmythcomix.wo... https://greekmythcomix.fi...

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"The primary artist is LEJ, Classical Civilisation and Literature teacher, writer and, apparently, artist." - maitani - -

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Hanni, die Amsel https://lh3.googleusercon...

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This didn't exactly turn out as I wanted. First, I added too much water for fear it might boil dry. And the taste of the chorizo was too strong. - maitani - -

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Ah, shoot. It sounds like you know more or less how to adjust though - I had to really teach myself not to add too much liquid, since it seems to mostly work out (unless, like me, you forget to put the lid on one time >__>) - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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What should be the first dish I cook in my new slow cooker? Something that can't go wrong? :-)

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I should add that neither I nor anyone I know has used a slow cooker yet. - maitani - -

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The one thing I've learned - the slow cooker is really, really forgiving. As long as there's some moisture, and the lid stays on, you just need to make sure that the flavors are ones you like. The slow-cooking does so much of the work for you. - Jennifer D. - [ 2 ] -

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Exclusive: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece http://www.newstatesman.c... http://www.newstatesman.c...

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"It is well known that Varoufakis was taken off Greece’s negotiating team shortly after Syriza took office; he was still in charge of the country’s finances but no longer in the room. It’s long been unclear why. In April, he said vaguely that it was because “I try and talk economics in the Eurogroup” – the club of 19 finance ministers whose countries use the Euro – “which nobody does.” I asked him what happened when he did." - maitani - -

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"“It’s not that it didn’t go down well – there was point blank refusal to engage in economic arguments. Point blank. You put forward an argument that you’ve really worked on, to make sure it’s logically coherent, and you’re just faced with blank stares. It is as if you haven’t spoken. What you say is independent of what they say. You might as well have sung the Swedish national anthem – you’d have got the same reply.”" - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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The decline of the British front garden http://www.bbc.com/news/m... http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/n...

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"When people imagine a classic British front garden, they may first think of a small slice of well-tended grass. Perhaps with a box hedge. But over the past 10 years the number of front gardens with gravel or paving instead of grass has tripled, now making up a quarter of all houses, a survey for the RHS shows." - maitani - -

Not having read the article one thing all these concrete gardens are doing, both front and back, is increasing the chances of flooding because when we get heavy rain there's nothing to absorb that water so it all goes gushing down the streets and ends up blocking the drains, hence why your streets are flooded! - Halil - [ 1 ] -

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Franz Kafka’s Kafkaesque Love Letters http://www.openculture.co... http://cdn8.openculture.c...

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"It’s easy to think of Franz Kafka as a celibate, even asexual, writer. There is the notable lack of eroticism of any recognizable sort in so much of his work. There is the prominent biographical detail—integral to so many interpretations—of his outsized fear of his father, which serves to infantilize him in a way. There is the image, writes Spiked, of “a lonely seer too saintly for this rank, sunken world.” All of this, James Hawes writes in his Excavating Kafka, “is pure spin.” Against such idolatry, both literary and quasi-religious, Hawes describes “the real Kafka,” including the fact that he was “far from an infrequent visitor to Prague’s brothels.” Though “tortured”—as his friend, biographer, and executor Max Brod put it—by guilt over his sexuality, Kafka nonetheless did not deny himself the frequent company of prostitutes and a collection of outré pornography." - maitani - -

Si può vedere anche "K." di Calasso a questo proposito. - erranti404 - [ 1 ] -

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The plant that can kill and cure http://www.bbc.com/news/m... http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk...

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"Nightshades have a deadly reputation but these plants, steeped in myth and folklore, have been used for thousands of years for medicinal purposes. And they may have properties that could keep us healthy today, writes Mary Colwell." - maitani - -

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Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm review – a dazzling history of the 16th‑century Mediterranean http://www.theguardian.co... http://i.guim.co.uk/stati...

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"In the last year of the 16th century, an English craftsman named Thomas Dallam found himself at the heart of the Ottoman empire. Dallam had been commissioned to build an organ to be presented to the Sultan, and he travelled with his creation through the Mediterranean as far as the court at Istanbul and back. Writing an account of his journey home, he remembered how the interpreter who accompanied him was not a local, but an Englishman named Finch, born in Chorley in Lancashire. Dallam wrote: “He was … in religion a perfit Turke [Muslim], but he was our trustie frende.”" - maitani - -

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east, west and the renaissance https://kenanmalik.wordpr... https://kenanmalik.files....

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"Last week I published a talk that I had given at the Palais de Beaux-Arts in Brussels. The talk, ‘The many roots of Christian Europe, the many sources of to Islamic world’ was one in a series given to accompany an exhibition, ‘The Sultan’s World: The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art’, organized by Bozar, the Centre for Fine Arts." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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Benthos: Digital Atlas of Ancient Waters http://awmc.unc.edu/wordp... http://awmc.unc.edu/wordp...

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"Benthos is a new initiative of the Ancient World Mapping Center that aims to catalog and map the waters of the ancient Mediterranean basin, including both physical and cultural geography. The project will provide interactive maps of Mediterranean shipping networks, bathymetric data, and views of ancient coastlines. Currently the project is in a preliminary state, with a functional beta version of the application based off of Antiquity À-la-carte." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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THE LEGACY OF GENGHIS KHAN http://www.delanceyplace.... http://delanceyplace.com/...

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"Today's selection -- from Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Jack Weatherford. Whether measured by the total number of people defeated, the sum of the countries annexed, or by the total area occupied, Genghis Khan was the most successful conqueror in world history, and he redrew the boundaries of the world:" - maitani - -

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The Urban Landscapes of Ancient Merv, Turkmenistan http://archaeologydataser... http://archaeologydataser...

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"Ancient Merv, in Turkmenistan, is one of the most complex and well-preserved urban centres on the Silk Roads of Central Asia. A succession of major cities at Merv started in the 6th century BC and continued until the Mongol sack of 1221AD, although Mongol occupation, a resurgent Timurid city of the 15th century, and expansion in the 19th century continues the urban sequence. Together the walled urban areas covered more than 1000 ha." - maitani - -

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A World of Languages http://www.lucasinfografi... http://payload381.cargoco...

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"INFOGRAPHIC. There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people. We represent each language within black borders and then provide the numbers of native speakers (in millions) by country. The colour of these countries shows how languages have taken root in many different regions." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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I was a little surprised by the number of Portuguese speakers. I had no idea there are more than 200 million people in Brazil! I would have guessed 50-60 million. :P - Ken Morley - -

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How to design a metaphor http://aeon.co/magazine/c... http://www.3quarksdaily.c...

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"It was the Princeton psycholinguist Sam Glucksberg who in 2003 argued that metaphors are really categorisation proposals. Provocations, you might call them. You’re suggesting that one thing belongs with another. But the thing that lets us make sense of ‘paintbrush as pump’ – or ‘lawyer as shark’ – is that ‘pump’ is the name of a category for liquid-moving mechanisms, just as ‘shark’ is the name of the category for predatory individuals. Words such as ‘pump’ and ‘shark’ aren’t just the names of individual things; they also speak to generalities. They have what Glucksberg calls ‘dual reference’." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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Latest Report: El Niño Continues to Bulk Up in the Pacific — and It May Get a Boost From the Pacific’s Surge of Cyclones http://blogs.discovermaga...

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"The El Niño once regarded as “El Wimpo” is getting ever stronger, and it’s likely to peak in late fall or early winter as one of the more brawny ones on record. “At this time, the forecaster consensus is in favor of a significant El Niño event,” states the monthly assessment from the U.S. Climate Prediction Center, released today. “Overall, there is a greater than 90% chance that El Niño will continue through Northern Hemisphere winter 2015-16, and around an 80% chance it will last into early spring 2016,” according to the report." - maitani - -

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Joseph Stiglitz: how I would vote in the Greek referendum http://www.theguardian.co... http://i.guim.co.uk/img/s...

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"It is hard to advise Greeks how to vote on 5 July. Neither alternative – approval or rejection of the troika’s terms – will be easy, and both carry huge risks. A yes vote would mean depression almost without end. Perhaps a depleted country – one that has sold off all of its assets, and whose bright young people have emigrated – might finally get debt forgiveness; perhaps, having shrivelled into a middle-income economy, Greece might finally be able to get assistance from the World Bank. All of this might happen in the next decade, or perhaps in the decade after that." - maitani - -

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