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@ Thanks for the RT & happy thanksgiving. (P.S. I grew up on 112th St & 103rd Ave.)
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Happy birthday, Tina Turner, 70 years old today.
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Artist Kara Walker is 40 today.
about 17 hours ago
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And thus begins the two-year countdown to the Zeng Guofan bicentennial:
about 18 hours ago
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50 years ago: Secretary Flemming and The Year of the Killer Cranberries:
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Joltin' Joe DiMaggio would have been 95 today.
9:48 AM Nov 25th
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It's Suriname independence day. The country is 34 years old.
9:45 AM Nov 25th
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The history of Thanksgiving:
9:41 AM Nov 25th
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McHenry wants your kids reading Lucretius, Virgil, Cicero in their soph. year. Of high school.
8:59 AM Nov 25th
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Thanksgiving Movies. What do Casablanca, Steve Martin, & Charlie Brown have in common with tryptophan?
8:32 AM Nov 25th
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Darwin's *Origin of Species* was published 150 years ago today.
11:22 AM Nov 24th
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Palin won't rule out running for Oprah in 2012, and other news that isn't from Whad'Ya Know?'s Michael Feldman.
10:39 AM Nov 24th
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@ Also this:
10:19 AM Nov 24th
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@ If you ever run across a copy of Adler's first autobiography () you can read the story in full. It's very funny.
10:18 AM Nov 24th
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@ Oh, yes, I've read Alex's book. Thanks. Even talked to him when he was writing it.
10:12 AM Nov 24th
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Unlocking the Ocean's Secrets, Part 2: Kara's back w/more strange denizens of the deep.
10:05 AM Nov 24th
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@ The Adler-Hutchins rejoinder to that was that since so few students today learn Latin-Greek, better 2 read translations than nothing.
9:58 AM Nov 24th
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It's , and you know what that means. Heather's here with her poison plant of the week, hellebore.
9:05 AM Nov 24th
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@ @ Interesting. Gertrude Stein would agree: “Greek ideas must be studied in Greek, Latin ideas in Latin”
8:48 AM Nov 24th
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Forget "21st-century skills": McHenry thinks students should actually know something. Maybe more than one.
7:58 AM Nov 24th
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