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The American Minerva: Shag Carpeting
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Monday, January 19, 2009. Shag carpeting is an amazing idea. Apparently in the late 50's and early 60's, those clever guys at DuPont found that their new polyester fibers could be made into carpeting; and more than that, since their new fibers were so different and miraculous, you could make extremely high pile, shaggy cut carpeting, and it wouldn't become matted into a disgusting mess of plastic fiber, dust, shed hair, dead skin and spilled drinks. So that's how they sold it to a thankful public.
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The American Minerva: May 2009
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Thursday, May 14, 2009. St Clement's, or the Taylor Estate, was an extensive manorial pile in Portland, Connecticut. No one has probably ever exerted themselves so much to build anything important in Portland. So the house was built in the 1920's, mostly modelled on a small monastery in France the family had seen on a tour of that country. One or both of them were Scots. And Wesleyan no longer expected them to carry out their duties, and with the Taylors gone, there was very little butlering and chau...
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The American Minerva: The face of Zeus
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Monday, July 13, 2009. The face of Zeus. I've been working on an online 3-D reconstruction of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia. I'm trying to be very rigorous in my accuracy. The Temple of Zeus in Olympia was one of the three most important religious sites in the Hellenistic world. The statue of Zeus was by the greatest Athenian sculptor, Phidias, and was considered one of the seven wonders of the world. So, I made the realization this morning, the Christ Pantokrator is the old image of Zeus.
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The American Minerva: July 2009
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Monday, July 13, 2009. The face of Zeus. I've been working on an online 3-D reconstruction of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia. I'm trying to be very rigorous in my accuracy. The Temple of Zeus in Olympia was one of the three most important religious sites in the Hellenistic world. The statue of Zeus was by the greatest Athenian sculptor, Phidias, and was considered one of the seven wonders of the world. So, I made the realization this morning, the Christ Pantokrator is the old image of Zeus.
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The American Minerva: Driving in the Berkshires
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Thursday, February 5, 2009. Driving in the Berkshires. Massachusetts Pike, near West Beckett, Massachusetts; southern spur of Lenox Mountain in far distance, (approx. 14 mi.). Photo taken at a somewhat advanced speed.). Posted by Kylinus Troianus. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Driving in the Berkshires. Palladium of the Republic.
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The American Minerva: February 2010
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010. It's about time to clear up confusion about Groundhog Day, and the alleged prognosticatorial predictions of marmots. In winter, at least in northeastern North America, (and apparently in Europe), there are, generally speaking, two kinds of days, warmer ones that are still very cold, and very cloudy, if not with light rains, and bitter cold ones, where an arctic cold high pressure system is present, and skies are very, very clear. Of course, if. If Candlemas be fair and bright,.
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The American Minerva: Pavane pour une infante défunte
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Pavane pour une infante défunte. So, there's been a shooting at Wesleyan. Alas, poor us. There will be posts, blogs, articles, eulogies, and lamentations. And they will all, at some point say that the victim was special. That she was unique. That she was not like other people. None of us are special. One of us has moved from the lists of those who move in the present, to the list of those who do not. She was special. There is a difference. She was not just another one of us. So wh...
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The American Minerva: Mount Greylock
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Mount Greylock over frozen Pontoosuc Lake, Lanesborough, Massachusetts. Posted by Kylinus Troianus. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Palladium of the Republic.
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The American Minerva: You randy scamp, you...
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Monday, March 16, 2009. You randy scamp, you. How come the only time I get referred to as a ‘Gentleman’ I’m doing something possibly, vaguely, naughty. In a few decades, the character of the word end up as something equivalent to ‘randy’. Posted by Kylinus Troianus. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You randy scamp, you. Thank you, Paul Simon. Palladium of the Republic.
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The American Minerva: On Christian charity
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008. Posted by Kylinus Troianus. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Palladium of the Republic.
