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- xw posted on 01/15/20076.16. Pliny to Cornelius Tacitus Thank you for asking me to send you a description of my uncle's death so that you can leave an accurate account of it for posterity(1); I know that immortal fame awaits him if his death is recorded by you. It is true that he perished in a catastrophe which destroyed the loveliest regions of the earth, a fate shared by whole cities and their people, and one so memorable that is likely to make his name live for ever: and he himself wrote a number of books of lasting value
- xw posted on 01/15/20075.VI.--TO DOMITIUS APOLLINARIS. I was charmed with the kind consideration which led you, when you heard that I was about to visit my Tuscan villa in the summer, to advise me not to do so during the season that you consider the district unhealthy. Undoubtedly, the region along the coast of Tuscany is trying and dangerous to the health, but my property lies well back from the sea; indeed, it is just under the Apennines, which are the healthiest of our mountain ranges. However, that you may not have
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- xw posted on 12/24/2006Exiit edictum a Ceasare Augusto, ut describeretur universus orbis. Haec descriptio prima facta est praeside Syriae Quirino: et ibant omnes ut profiterentur singuli in suam civitatem. Ascendit autem et Ioseph a Galilaea de civitate Nazareth, in ludaeam civitatem David, quae vocatur Bethleem: eo quod esset de domo et familia David, ut profiteretur cum Maria desponsata sibi uxore praegnate. Factum est autem cum essent ibi, impleti sunt dies ut pareret. Et peperit filium suum primogenitum, et pannis e
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- xw posted on 12/20/2006Let there be light Let there be light is a common English translation of the Latin phrase fiat lux, which describes the creation of light by God near the beginning of Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Fiat lux is adapted from the Greek phrase æŦͦǦήӦ ώς (or gentht phs), which in turn comes from the Hebrew יְהִי אוֹר (or yehiy 'or). It is one of the most famous phrases in the English languag
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- xw posted on 12/10/2006OTTO DIX The Poet Iwar von Lcken 1926 Oil and tempera on canvas, 226 x 120 cm Acquired with funds from the Foundation DKLB, the Federal Home Office and the Museum Fund of the Senator for Cultural Affairs Berlin, 1988. &&& Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s http://www.metmuseum.org/special/glitter/images.asp Political, economic, and social turmoil shaped Germanys short-lived Weimar Republic (1919C1933). These pivotal
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