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Herodotus on The Wacky Tabacky

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Because I’m living in his neck of the woods (more or less), I’ve been reading some of The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Today I ran into an interesting couple of paragraphs (mine is a different translation, but the gist is the same) about the Scythians and their affection for the ganja:
Now they have a […]

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Own a Little Chunk of Lansdowne Road

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Dublin’s Landsdowne Road is the oldest rugby ground in the world that hosts international matches. They also have international soccer/football matches there–I saw Ireland beat Russia there in a friendly back in 2002. It’s currently undergoing a €365 million renovation, and due to be reopened in 2009.
In the meantime, the Irish Rugby Foorball Union is […]

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Odd Photos From the Past Week

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Over the past week or so, I’ve taken a few random photos which each merited commentary, if not their own blog post. In all cases, click the images for larger sizes.
We visited Minerve, which is a charming hilltop medieval town. Beside the church, there was a little museum of archeaology and paleontology. There were a […]

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Additional items in this category:
Bill Shakespeare’s Twitterscape
Last Stand of the Spartans
Doomed to Ignominy
A Shameful Truth About My Early Dating Life
James Joyce’s Grandson Sounds Like a Nutter
Assassinated with an Umbrella?
The Big Lake They Called Gitche Gumee

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