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Saturday, June 12, 2004
It's often said that Latin is a dead language Lingua Latina saepe dicitur mortua esse LEEN-gwah lah-TEE-nah SIGH-pay DEE-kih-tuhr MOHR-too-ah EHS-seh Baloney! Nugas! NOO-gahss! It's just been taking a long nap. Modum iam pridem meridiatur MOH-duhm yahm PREE-dehm meh-ree-dih-AH-tuhr Refdesk Thoughts of the Day "Never bear more than one trouble..." "Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." - Edward Everett Hale "It is not what we do..." "It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." - Moliere The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: Portal to Asian Internet Resources A Title VI-funded project, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources. The project provides a user-friendly, searchable catalog through which scholars, students and the general public have quick and easy access to high quality Web resources originating in Asia identified, evaluated, selected and cataloged by area library specialists. PBS: Colonial House Companion site for the PBS series. "Colonial House " airing May 17, 18, 24, 25, 2004. Indentured servitude. No baths or showers. Public punishments. Welcome to daily life in the year 1628! Think colonial life was all about pious Pilgrims, powdered wigs and freedom for all? Think again! Two dozen modern-day time travelers find out the hard way what early American colonial life was really like when they take up residence in Colonial House. Sunday, June 06, 2004
IN MEMORY OF RONALD W. REAGAN, 40TH PRESIDENT OF THE USA Some selections from the Jackson Simon Store. |