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Monday night Irish Class, April 4, 2011
Irish Class, April 4, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, 4ú lá mí Aibreáin 2011
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Oldest known written record in Europe discovered
A Linear B tablet from between 1450 and 1350 B.C.
His/Her Story: A landed woman
From the Elephantine archives, the first historical documentation of a Jewish woman.
The Jewish woman Mibtahiah’s archive contains 10 documents found in superb condition; they reveal surprising details concerning her life and the options available to Jewish women in this settlement.
Mibtahiah never exercised her option to divorce and seemed to have had good relationships with her father and both husbands. This independent homeowner who could afford to accept a symbolic return of a loan to her father might well be the first Jewish woman for whom we have original documentation.
Fun with cosmology
“Many rock concerts are actually louder than the Big Bang.”
From How Loud was the Big Bang?, where you can see the math to back up that claim.
From the chutzpah file
Student isn’t the only one mad at Twin Cities term-paper company.
The college senior in Colorado felt cheated when for $23 per page she ordered a custom-written term paper from a Twin Cities company and it wasn’t delivered on time.
Never mind that she was cheating by passing off a paper written by a stranger as her own. She complained to the Better Business Bureau about Essaywritingcompany.com, owned by Jordan Kavoosi of Farmington.
From Best of the Web Today.
Monday Night Irish Class, March 28, 2011
Irish Class, March 28, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, 28ú lá Mí na Márta 2011
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Will passed around a copy of Cén Sórt é?:
A compendium of the varied and vast words in the Irish language to describe different kinds of people. The work was assembled using a wide range of authoritive sources and contains cross-references to these sources. It will be both a source of reference and pleasure for users of the language.
At a glance, most of the “words … to describe different kinds of people” seem to be negative. Looks like fun,
and well worth a few Euros.
Saved by calculus
A couple weeks ago I went to the going out of business sale for the Borders bookstore in St. Paul. While being a vulture browsing the sale, I glanced through 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know: Math Explains Your World and saw this story from the Russian Civil War:
Science: ….
Monday night Irish Class, March 21, 2011
Irish Class, March 21, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, 21ú lá Mí na Márta 2011
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From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 