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Professors of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your Deans!The blogosphere begins to penetrate Geneva, NY, as the Old Oligarch takes notice of my link. I concur in his book recommendations on blood sacrifice, with the caveat that I'm not quite ready to assign Ulansey's The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries : Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World. I think he's probably right,

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A mild fantasy of things to comeIn the next few weekends all over North America (and at slightly different times in Europe), men and women like me will put on 17th century adaptations of medieval dress clothes - scholars gowns, hoods (it was COLD in those stone buildings in medieval Europe) and hats - and walk in procession, all too frequently behind a much less useful medieval survivor, the

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Hurrah! We're saved! The EU are planning to ditch the current flag (a circlet of gold stars on a blue background) in favour of some kind of stripey thing containing all the colours of all EU member flags designed by a Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas. Onward and upward to those broad, sunlit uplands!Some feedback has already been generated. Jay Merrick, the Indescribablypretentious's 'architecture

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