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What Will Southern Universities Do?

The New York Times has a good piece this morning about Southern universities' dilemma [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/education/30sewanee.html?hp&ex=1133413200&en=8c37104c5690ad60&ei=5094&partner=homepage] : Do they ditch Confederate imagery in an attempt to attract a broader

No Protection for Kooks

> British historian David Irving, known for his controversial views on World War Two, must stay in custody in Vienna while he is charged with denying the Holocaust, a court ruled on Friday [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051125/wl_canada_nm/canada_irving_austria_col_1].

Hot Time on the Town

This is nuthin'. Wait till the Muslims take over Europe: > Drunks may cause a ruckus, but they do not burn down the breweries that feed their thirst. But archaeologists have found that things were different 1000 years ago in Peru. After tossing down hearty drinks of pepper-spiced

Historical Miniature: Johnson's Dictionary

It's not often you get Samuel Johnson in the MSM. This was great to see [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111001663.html] : > Except on those rare occasions when new editions of existing dictionaries are issued -- the Oxford English Dictionary , Webster'

Giant Discovery

> Archaeologists digging at the purported biblical home of Goliath have unearthed a shard of pottery bearing an inscription of the Philistine's name, a find they claimed lends historical credence to the Bible's tale of David's battle with the giant. > While the discovery

Lots of Chaucer

Lots of medieval stuff. Pretty cool: > Although Chaucer's Canterbury Tales pilgrims are fictional characters, the pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Ã¡ Becket was an actual experience for many Medieval folk. This article explores the lives of Chaucer's pilgrims had they been truly alive and

Old Church

> Israeli archaeologists said Saturday they have discovered what may be the oldest Christian church in the Holy Land on the grounds of a prison near the biblical site of Armageddon. > The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the ruins are believed to date back to the third or fourth centuries

Vatican Doesn't Hate Science?

Only among reporters wholly ignorant of the Roman Catholic Church's history with science would find this newsworthy: > A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism" if it ignores scientific

Belloc as Historian

Good essay about Hilaire Belloc's merits as a historian from September's Seattle Catholic. Link [http://www.seattlecatholic.com/a050907.html]. Thanks, Joe Tremblay at Chesterton and Friends [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2005/10/belloc-as-historian.html].

King David

Neat excerpt from a NYT review of The Life of David by Robert Pinsky [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/books/review/23deresiewicz.html]. > [David's] story is also far fuller than that of any other biblical character. Moses' occupies more space, but that austere figure