…. A surprising Bronze Age discovery. More on the Oldest known written record in Europe. Via Explorator.
Got it in writing:….
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Kindle fun
I jailbroke my Kindle 3, using this download. I then proceeded to apply the Screen Saver Hack which lets you replace the pictures of all those authors by whatever you want. It worked perfectly and did not take long. The time consuming part was converting a set of family pictures to 600 x 800 grayscale png files.
The author of the jailbreak has an interesting note about his hack for the latest Kindle firmware.
The Sea Peoples,….
What’s in a name?
On this day in 53 B.C…..
A large Roman army commanded by Marcus Licinius Crassus was defeated by a numerically inferior Parthian force under Surenas near Carrhae in northern Syria. From Rogueclassicism.
Monday Night Irish Class, June 6, 2011
Irish Class, June 6, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, 6ú lá Mí na Mheiteamh 2011
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| Tá bindealán ar mo ordóg. Throid mé an sábh agus bhuaig an sábh. | There is a bandage on my thumb. I fought the saw and the saw won. |
Warning labels
| Eye irritant. Keep out of reach of children. |
Griog súl. Coimeád as láimhe leanaí. |
I looked at “Eye irritant” and mentally rewrote it as “Irritant of eyes.” Immediately I thought: “That’s a
genitive plural.”
I fought the saw…
… and the saw won.
Iron and Steel…
The f-word
Still, there is a bit more to the meaning of ‘fundamentalist’ (in this widely current use): it isn’t simply a term of abuse. In addition to its emotive force, it does have some cognitive content, and ordinarily denotes relatively conservative theological views. That makes it more like ‘stupid sumbitch’ (or maybe ‘fascist sumbitch’?) than ‘sumbitch’ simpliciter. Continue reading
Writing history
I have been reading The Sea Peoples, another book about the widespread destruction at the end of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. From page 173:
There is a dangerous temptation to link destruction levels together in the interests of tidiness and economy, but history is seldom tidy or notably economical, however it may be with philosophy. This is one of the reasons why history should not be written by philosophers or sociologists.
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