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Thank a Veteran!! ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ The bacterium which causes peptic ulcers has been infesting humans for quite a while: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993004 BBC Radio has a nice feature (with plenty of .ram audio links) on Catal Huyuk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/unearthingmysteries_20021112.shtml Archaeologists are worried about what might happen to artifacts in Iraq in the event of war: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=349643 They're finding more stuff in Alexandria's harbour: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o091122n.htm A 'har' has been found near Karnak (?): http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o091122o.htm More from Karnak: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o091122b.htm .... and a statue of one of Ramses II's wives has been found: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o061122c.htm Charterhouse School's sale of some Egyptian antiquities has raised the ire of Egyptian types: http://www.surreyad.co.uk/news/08-11-02/news04.html Al-Ahram has a touristy thing on the Bahariya Oasis: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/611/travel.htm There is a suggestion that leprosy might have arrived in Britain some 1500 years earlier than previously thought (which gets Alexander the Great and the Romans off the hook, I suppose): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2406001.stm http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_703623.html http://www.news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1234392002 http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=1232372002 Plans are afoot for a full scale excavation of Chester's Roman amphitheatre: http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12348359&method=full&siteid=50020 A Hellenistic tomb has been found during sewer construction in Cyprus: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/November/9/news15.htm Rain in Greece is threatening (maybe) some ancient monuments: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=22935 The latest twist in the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles saga (the first two articles are *very* different; the last comparandum): http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1108/p06s01-woeu.html http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=350574 http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12986&m=A08&aa=1&eidos=S cf: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=22800 A Saxon burial site and a Roman wall have been found during a dig near Sevenoaks (UK): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2419839.stm .... similar findings (Saxon and Roman) in Suffolk County: http://tinyurl.com/2kms Next up for DNA testing ... the purported remains of Sweden's St.] Birgitta: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_704116.html Here's a chatty/touristy sort of thing on the Vikings: http://travel.independent.co.uk/europe/scandinavia/story.jsp?story=348767 A major Shu site is being excavated in Chengdu: http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2002-11-08/92936.html http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2002-11-08/92935.html A metal detectorist in Nottinghamshire has found a 400-year-old ring: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2351469.stm DNA has been used to identify a hitherto unidentified victim of the Titanic: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/11/07/titanic.child.reut/index.html This is one that I messed up a couple weeks ago and then forgot to put the obligatory correction in ... it's about cannibalism among the early Celts: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20021021/eton.html Apparently some folks don't want to be labelled as a 'lost tribe': http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F11%2F10%2Fwtribe10.xml Not sure how to classify this one ... it's a short feature on anthropologist Ken Feder's debunking activities: http://library.northernlight.com/FF20021031840000384.html .... or this one, on historin Simon Schama as host of a very popular television series on British history: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/arts/television/03SALA.html .... or this one, which is about the cosmological pursuits of Edgar Allen Poe: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/02/arts/02TANK.html .... or this item, on Renaissance composer Salamone Rossi: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/arts/music/08SING.html .... or the financial battle between a couple of galleries for possession of a Raphael: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/arts/design/08INSI.html .... or a piece all about Ignatius Donnelly: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/10/1036308571756.html Graham Hancock is down the highway from here, plugging his latest book (larger than that city's phone book!): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021109/FCHANCY/Headlines/headdex/headdexComment_temp/4/4/15/ ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Peru is going to open a museum devoted to the "Lord of Sipan": http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20021106/sc_nm/peru_sipan_dc .... while other researchers are examining the parasites which infested the Inca folk: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=348804 A piece on work done by archaeologists in various US government agencies: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10367-2002Nov5.html A nice feature on state archaeologist Nicholas Bellantoni: http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20021110/localnews/340273.html A touristy thing on Teotihuacan: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,71-472747,00.html Coastal habitation of Oregon's coast has been pushed back by a couple millennia: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/front_page/1036768550270180.xml ================================================================ PETITION ================================================================ Last week we mentioned the proposed Rosia gold mine, which threatens a major Roman archaeological site. The link provided last week included a way to sign an online petition (it's legit!) which might not have been immediately obvious, so here's a direct link: http://www.petitiononline.com/rosia_ro/ ================================================================ ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL ================================================================ "The River Has Many Secrets" (Snake River): http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A Greek stele bought at auction in London will be returned to Greece: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-469862,00.html A Czech afflicted with the 'pharaoh's curse' decided to return some stolen artifacts to Egypt: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o091122p.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ Mary Beth Norton, *In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692*: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/books/review/03LEPORET.html Umberto Eco, *Baudolino* (reviewed by Peter Green): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/books/review/03GREENT.html Susan Griffin, *Book of the Courtesan*: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20021110wo61.htm Gabrielle Glaser, *The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival*: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59335-2002Nov2.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES ================================================================ Lysistrata Project (Guelph): http://www.guelphmercury.com/entertainment/entertainment_02110483848.html Medea: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26431-2002Nov8.html Bacchae (South Africa): http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=5&art_id=vn20021107094708220C759639&set_id=9 ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ History of Writing (Athens): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=22761 Adventures of Hamza (New York): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/arts/design/10COTT.html Kazari Decoration and Display (New York): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/arts/design/08COTT.html Liban: 1860-1861 (Beirut): http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/19_10_02_a.htm Legacy of Genghis Khan (Met): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/arts/design/08KIMM.html Maps of London (London): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2417303.stm Art of the Ancient Americas (Walters): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/travel/03ADVBX.html The Pharaohs (Venice): http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/611/her1.htm Art of India and Pakistan (Tokyo ... ClassCon in these!): http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fa20021106a1.htm PanAthenaic Prize Amphora: http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=51159 ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ The latest "Latin is alive and well" piece: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5924590&BRD=1169&PAG=461&dept_id=17708&rfi=6 Similiter: http://www.saratogian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5938087&BRD=1169&PAG=461&dept_id=17708&rfi=6 .... then again: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/nov02/93789.asp .... and a piece which might be useful for convincing jocks to take Latin in high school: http://usctrojans.ocsn.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/110602aab.html Who says there isn't money in having a Classics degree: http://www.theadvocate.com/stories/110602/peo_edge001.shtml Writing Greek exams in Sydney: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/07/1036308424566.html When Latin teachers go on strike: http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/11/08/build/strike/36-students.inc A lawsuit of note: http://www.athensnews.com/issue/article.php3?story_id=9982 Didja know all this about Sophie Schliemann?: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=22949 ClassCon in 'Free Will Astrology' (for Sagittarius, anyway): http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2002/MERC-Nov-07-Thu-2002/19993845.html Surely an omen imperii for Peter Krentz: http://www.wral.com/news/1773105/detail.html Something hypish seems to be happening with regards to the Archimedes Palmipsest: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-11/su-asf110802.php Kate Atkinson's *Not the End of the World* looks interesting: http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,835717,00.html Etymologies http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20021110/localnews/340774.html (assorted 'daughters of Eve') http://www.townonline.com/byfield/news/opinion/mrc_colnskitchcaljms11082002.htm (pepon) http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-11-2002_pg3_5 (assorted) http://www.theadvocate.com/stories/110902/rel_saint001.shtml (sanctus) http://www.northantsnew.co.uk/ref/news_chron.asp?ID=13854 (Diana's epitaph) http://www.naplesnews.com/02/11/marco/d855943a.htm (barba) http://www.thenassauguardian.com/religion/277551933972753.php (ad multos annos) http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=151030&newsid=5986738&PAG=461&rfi=9 (US dollar Latin) http://www.startribune.com/stories/417/3401293.html (Bucephalus ... why would Alexander's horse have a Latin name????????) http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/110702/new_20021107028.shtml (virtus) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/07/business/worldbusiness/07DAEW.html (Lacetti ???) .... I couldn't get through to the Spectator this a.m. ... Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/ U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Alan Walker Read (lexicographer): http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-472767,00.html ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Elgin Marbles Letter (genuine followup in the first instance): http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1238162002 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2408693.stm Jack the Ripper ID: http://www.msnbc.com/news/832002.asp James Ossuary (plenty of genuine followups this week, including the identity of the owner, plans to repair, etc.): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/02/science/02JESU.html http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=349976 http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Ossuaries.htm http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1036861627333_26/?hub=SciTech http://www.nationalpost.com/national/story.html?id={FD54A9EB-434E-4701-AABF-2657FC90A4CA} http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021106/UOSSUM/Headlines/headdex/headdexNational_temp/12/12/27/ http://www.msnbc.com/news/829505.asp http://www.msnbc.com/news/832057.asp http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_705381.html http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=227760&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El1599&enZone=Culture&enVersion=0& Welsh 'Mary Rose' (genuine followup): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2413337.stm ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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