From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Nov 11 05:39:53 2001 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id fABDdqn174660 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 05:39:52 -0800 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Nov 11 05:39:51 2001 -0800 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id fABDdp428005 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 05:39:51 -0800 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-05-133.look.ca [216.154.54.133]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA58700; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:43:16 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011111083606.021f0390@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:36:30 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com, PreModernWorldHistory@egroups.com, ancientmed@egroups.com, latinteach@vlists.net, latin@vlists.net From: David Meadows Subject: In Explorator 4.28 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ in explorator 4.28 classical world edition ================================================================ Thanks to all the veterans out there, without whose efforts we'd probably not have the opportunity to put together newsletters like Explorator ... *** Thanks to Bill Kennedy, Richard Campbell, Michael Younger, Edward Hanna, Trevor Watkins, Iain McNeil, Stuart Unwin, Alastair Millar, Curtis B. Edmundson, Celia Bergoffen, and Arthur Shippee, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Did a meteor(ite) cause a catastrophic collapse of civilizations ca 4000 b.p.?: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F11%2F04%2Fwmet04.xml A brief news release suggests researchers have found what may have been the harbour of Troy: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-11/gsoa-gda110701.php A "rare" Roman mosaic has been found in Britain: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=103765 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,589468,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4294298,00.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001385297,00.html http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/08/nmos08.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/08/ixhome.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1642000/1642564.stm http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/654123.asp http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/international/08BRIE.html http://www.dispatch.com/features-story.php?story=dispatch/news/features01/nov01/930357.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_443623.html a couple of additional photos: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news_photos?p=mosaic*&n=20&c=news_photos The Italian government is going to privatize the sites of Pompeii and the Colosseum: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F11%2F11%2Fwital11.xml ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ The StonePages folks are doing a tour of the various archaeological sites of Sardinia and have a nice online diary which is worth a visit: http://www.stonepages.com/sardinia/ Folks interested in 'sim' type games might like to check out a new one called Legion, which is currently being developed: http://www.slitherine.co.uk/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A policeman and two others have been arrested for trying to sell a number of 6th century Greek artifacts: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12935&m=A10&aa=6&eidos=S http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_443653.html Some idiot set a (small) bomb off at the Temple of Concord in Agrigento: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=106942 http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1104490,00.html ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has another guest-authored piece on the Roman use of concrete: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_geary_bas.htm ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ AthensNews has a brief overview of what's in 12 recently opened (or reopened) regional museums: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12934&m=A24&aa=1&eidos=S ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Interesting "claim in passing" in regards to a marathon in Egypt: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o101121k.htm I'm not sure what the point of John Carr's piece in AthensNews is (be kind -- I'm full of codeine and we're out of coffee), but folks probably want to read it: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12935&m=A99&aa=3&eidos=S The same newspaper's cooking column has a nice little feature on saffron: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12934&m=A40&aa=1&eidos=S A nice piece on grape harvests ancient and modern: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=106953 USNews and World Report has an issue on 'heroes' which might be of interest: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/heroes/heroes.htm Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-11-10&id=1289 .... and Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-11-10&id=1287 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ A.H. Coxon: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=103931 ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Afghanistan (these are all different, but related): http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7995 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001380016-2001383879,00.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/11/03/MN115361.DTL http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/03/world/world5.html Agatha Christie: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_444081.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1644000/1644552.stm St. Luke DNA: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/23/13460 ================================================================ Useful Addresses ================================================================ Past issues of Explorator are available on the web at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to: mailto:Explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To send a 'heads up' to the editor: mailto:dmeadows@idirect.com Many articles which don't expire will eventually show up with related items in the Atrium's Media Archive, which should debut before the end of August at: http://atrium-media.com/mediaarchive.html ================================================================ Explorator is Copyright (c) 2001 David Meadows. 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