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Stuff You Missed in History ClassUnearthed! in Spring 2025, Part 2Part two of the spring 2025 installment of Unearthed! features the potpourri category, plus drones/radar/lidar, books and letters, animals, edibles and potables, shipwrecks, swords (sort of) and cats. Research: Roque, Nika. “Maria Orosa, fellow World War II heroes laid to rest at San Agustin Church.” GMA Integrated News. 2/14/2025. https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/936107/maria-orosa-fellow-world-war-ii-heroes-laid-to-rest-at-san-agustin-church/story/ Adam, David. “Does a new genetic analysis finally reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper?” Science. 3/15/2019. https://www.science.org/content/article/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper Jeffries, Ella. “These Everyday Artifacts Tell the Story of Harriet Tubman’s Father’s Home as Climate Chan...2025-04-1638 minStuff You Missed in History ClassUnearthed! in Spring 2025, Part 1The first part of our springtime edition of Unearthed! for 2025 features so many updates! There are also finds related to Egypt and artwork. Research: Roque, Nika. “Maria Orosa, fellow World War II heroes laid to rest at San Agustin Church.” GMA Integrated News. 2/14/2025. https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/936107/maria-orosa-fellow-world-war-ii-heroes-laid-to-rest-at-san-agustin-church/story/ Adam, David. “Does a new genetic analysis finally reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper?” Science. 3/15/2019. https://www.science.org/content/article/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper Jeffries, Ella. “These Everyday Artifacts Tell the Story of Harriet Tubman’s Father’s Home as Climate Change Threatens the Historic Site.” Smithson...2025-04-1440 min
Transplanar RPGThe Second Stranger | Arc 2 | E13: bittersweet, undefeated
The Derelict Death Derby BEGINS! Øka, Manaia, Dewey, and Vee pilot an alligator-drawn chariot, racing against a giant snake, a toad-ball, and a mechanical... spider?!
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Content warnings for this episode: fantasy violence, violent showdowns against turtles and alligators, explosions, snakes, q...2022-02-011h 37
Transplanar RPGThe Second Stranger | Arc 1 | E7: tender heart heavy with griefVee burns down a building. The party faces the consequences of their actions. And no one gets soup.
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Content warnings for this episode: fantasy violence, blood, alcohol, substance use and addiction, cults and cult-like behavior, militarism...2021-08-101h 31
The Poetry VoiceSappho's 'Fragment 31'Sappho (c600 BC)
Possibly the most famous female poet in history? Well known and highly respected in her own Greek culture. Her name is still very well known, though perhaps for the wrong reasons. Very little of her work survives, and most of it seems to be fragments. There are numerous attempts at translating this particular poem: Catullus, Campion, Bunting and others have done their best. I like this version because it respects the fragment and works as a poem.This is taken from Sappho, Poems and Fragments, translated by Josephine...2020-08-1100 min
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lecturesJosephine Balmer: A ReadingPoet, classical translator, research scholar and literary critic, Josephine Balmer reads from her latest collection, The Paths of Survival - inspired by the surviving fragments of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, Myrmidons. This reading is followed by a discussion with Josephine Balmer, Laura Swift, and Oliver Taplin.2019-03-131h 07
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT)Unbuttoning CatullusA discussion with Dr Gail Trimble, Prof. Nicola Gardini, Josephine Balmer for the OCCT Translation and Criticism strand. Chaired by Professor Matthew Reynolds2014-12-011h 18