Irish Class, November 14, 2016 Rang Gaeilge, 14ú lá Mí na Samhna 2016
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"Seachas an run sin, Mrs. Lincoln. ar thaitin an dráma leat?"
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banlámhcubitf Is fearr banlámh den lá ná dhá bhanlámh den oiche.It is better to start early than to work late. Lit. "Better one cubit in the day than two cubits at night." ( Read more... )

How the Romans really conquered Britannia. pic.twitter.com/ZpiGWKG1nl
- The Classics Library (@stephenjenkin) December 21, 2015

What were climate scientists predicting in the 1970s?
The fact is that around 1970 there were 6 times as many scientists predicting a warming rather than a cooling planet.
Their papers showed that the growing amount of greenhouse gasses that humans were putting into the atmosphere would cause much greater warming - warming that would exert a ( Read more... )

IRONY ALERT: Washington man thanks public employees for saving his home while wearing "Less Government" shirt #1u pic.twitter.com/GCUkOyDnF4
- chuckwestover (@chuckwestover) August 23, 2015

Climate Change Deniers Present Graphic Description Of What Earth Must Look Like For Them To Believe

From The Onion, not the GOP. Maybe next week....

Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
He was a world-renowned scholar of antiquities, enchanted into his old age by Syria’s fabled city of Palmyra, which he called among the most beautiful in the world.

Not far from the spectacular Roman ruins he had spent decades safeguarding, 82-year-old Khaled Asaad met a ( Read more... )

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The Village and the Tower

Charleston massacre: The latest American mass killing
The regularity of mass killings breeds familiarity. [....] Those who live in America, or visit it, might do best to regard them the way one regards air pollution in China: an endemic local health hazard which, for deep-rooted cultural, social, economic and political reasons, the country is ( Read more... )

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