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Saturday, August 5
Now there are tunes with the ARLT Latin song book
by
arltblogger
on Sat 05 Aug 2006 23:21 BST
While the ARLT Summer School is fresh in our minds, I've added midi versions to the Latin songs we sing there. more »
The golden days of Baedeker
by
arltblogger
on Sat 05 Aug 2006 13:13 BST
The biography of Karl Baedeker, available at the moment from the ODNB site, reminds me of my first visit to Italy in 1959, when my companion on my solitary pilgrimage was a Baedeker from around 1904. It was quaintly old-fashioned, and advised me to tip the attendant 5 sous and so on, but, my word, it was thorough. I can shut my eyes and see orange-brown floor plans of St Peter's and the Brera Gallery which were still useful more than half a century after their publication. more »
Blanche Athena Clough in ODNB's Life of the Day
by
arltblogger
on Sat 05 Aug 2006 12:40 BST
She entered Newnham College, Cambridge, of which her aunt was principal, in 1884. She read classics, although taking no tripos examinations more »
Peter Jones gives a raunchy picture of Roman baths
by
arltblogger
on Sat 05 Aug 2006 12:06 BST
In the course of a Daily Mail piece about the opening on Monday of the new Spa at Bath, the writer quotes Peter Jones, who was clearly consulted when in an unbridled mood. more »
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