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Ptolemy IV, Philopator

2006/01/15 By Rob 2 Comments

The word is “deaccession”, a fancy way of saying a museum is selling off a portion of its collection. This can happen for many reasons. For example, the museum may have received a bequest that was outside the parameters of its collection, it may have … [Continue reading] about Ptolemy IV, Philopator

Filed Under: Numismatics Tagged With: Battle of Raphia, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Egypt, Ptolemaic dynasty

Jingle Bells, Batman Smells

2006/01/09 By Rob 509 Comments

I’ve been reading Games and Songs of American Children by William Wells Newell, a Dover reprint of the 1903 edition. I find it fascinating how games are transmitted from generation to generation, games like “Tag”, “Button button who has the button?”, … [Continue reading] about Jingle Bells, Batman Smells

Filed Under: Music

The Most Dangerous Idea

2006/01/05 By Rob Leave a Comment

The Edge Foundation’s 2006 question is framed as: WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA? The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian … [Continue reading] about The Most Dangerous Idea

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