Anatomy uses standardized Latin terminology to identify musculature.
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Changes to medical terminology in Latin may affect how anatomists not trained in the language understand and communicate information.
The Vesuvius Challenge incentivizes technological development by inviting researchers to figure out how to ‘read’ ancient papyri excavated from volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. Columns of Greek text retrieved from a portion of a scroll.
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However exciting the technological developments may be, the task of reading and analyzing the Greek and Latin texts recovered from the papyri will fall to human beings.
The Mari Lwyd makes a welcome appearance in Chepstow.
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The Mari Lwyd and the plygain are two prominent Welsh traditions celebrated over Christmas and the new year.
Nos Galan Gaeaf on October 31 is followed by Calan Gaeaf on November 1 in Wales.
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Nos Galan Gaeaf on October 31 in Wales is steeped in folklore and tradition.
Preparation of actors for a satyric drama, from the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii.
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Collecting choice Latin lines is easy – the difficulty is trying to work out what they add up to. And women, in particular, come off badly in this collection of Latin’s greatest hits.
AirBNB IPO share price as at December 10, 2020.
Airbnb is taking a very bold step by issuing a multi billion dollar IPO during a global economic slowdown – something that was unthinkable a few years ago.
Co-champions celebrate at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland, on May 31, 2019. The winning spellers made history with eight co-champions, most ever in spelling event’s history.
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The Scripps National Spelling Bee highlights the richness of the English lexicon by picking some tough entries with foreign roots.
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The oldest surviving novel in Latin literature, Satyricon follows three young men on their misadventures and homosexual love triangle.
Trump: there was no quid pro quo.
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The history of the Latin phrase at the centre of the impeachment investigation into Donald Trump.
Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch humanist and theologian.
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Martin Luther is credited with initiating the split in Christianity that came to be called the Protestant Reformation. But don’t count out Erasmus, an early proponent of similarly radical ideas.
Roman mosaic from the Villa del Cicerone in Pompeii.
How Romans overcame their fear of witches by finding them funny.
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Interdisciplinary research led to the discovery that three historic books were covered in a layer of arsenic.
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Textual analysis using the digitised text of this 4th-century manuscript has established its authenticity.
‘All Greek to me, mate.’
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When we ditched high-school Latin we lost a great intellectual training. Here’s how to get it back without resorting to a dead language.
Giles Fraser thinks that ‘Brexit recycles the defiant spirit of the Reformation’. How wrong can he be?
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The UK’s approach to classics in school is a hangover from the days of selective education.
The meaning of science has evolved over time but the goals remain the same.
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Understanding the meaning of the word science has changed over time, but the goals to produce and share knowledge remains the same.
Wilting away?
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A little item buried on the inside pages of newspapers recently caused a small stir. Latin plant names, it was claimed, were “in danger of dying out”, following a decision by the International Botanical…
A project started decades ago and crossing a range of academic disciplines to build the world’s most comprehensive dictionary…