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From: David Meadows <dmeadows@idirect.com>
Subject: In the latest Explorator
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Tidbits from my newsletter:

The Times of London reports on one of the spinoffs of the popularity of 
Gladiator ... the Colosseum is going to be refurbished a bit for use as a 
theatre:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/08/timfgneur02001.html

The Times also reports that someone has figured out how Archimedes' "death 
ray" worked:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/05/14/stinwenws02011.html

The Zenit news agency (?) reports on the discovery of a cave in Turkey, 
with plenty of frescoes depicting St. Paul and various other early 
Christian personalities:

http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2653

FOLLOWUPS

Plenty of sources are reporting on the threat to the site of Belkis 
(Zeugma) by rising dam waters (lots of stuff is being discovered in the 
emergency excavation):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/11/timfgneur02004.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=r2ta3FFX&atmo=HHHHHH8L&pg=/et/00/5/14/wzeug14.html

http://archives.seattletimes.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=damm07&date=20000507&query=archaeologist


Discovery.com has a feature on the 'hotel' found at Pompeii reported last week:

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000511/history_pompeii.html

OBITUARY

Homer Thompson

http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaystory?2000/05/14+139.raw+World

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