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	<title>IRIS</title>
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		<title>Date for Caesar&#8217;s Invasion Revised (a wee bit)</title>
		<link>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/07/02/date-for-caesars-invasion-revised-a-wee-bit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh on the heels of the (somewhat dubious) attempt to fix the date of Odysseus&#8217; return to Ithaca using astronomical information, comes this. Using details from Caesar&#8217;s Commentary and taking advantage of a fortuitous confluence of celestial events, scholars claim the traditional date of Caesar&#8217;s invasion of England should be slightly revised. The BBC reports:
Julius [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah at the Centro III-Campania</title>
		<link>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/04/27/sarah-at-the-centro-iii-campania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Derbew ‘09 sends in another installment of her Study Abroad Journal:
Greetings again from Rome,
Another month, another great field trip. Two weeks ago, we went down to
southern Italy for a week, visiting sites and museums.  The food was
amazing again, at Villa Vergiliana in Cumae (where we stayed for a few
nights), we had a lunch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah at the Centro II: Sicily</title>
		<link>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/03/23/sarahs-centro-journal-ii-sicily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Derbew &#8216;09 sends in another installment of her Study Abroad Journal:
In the middle of March, we had a week-long field trip to Sicily. It began early Friday morning with a 7 o&#8217;clock roll call on our field trip bus (a huge beautiful charter bus). We drove from Rome down to southern Italy, then crossed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now That&#8217;s a Big Bang Theory!</title>
		<link>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/29/now-thats-a-big-bang-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/29/now-thats-a-big-bang-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every Monday, the LiveScience website publishes an article on a discovery, event, or character that influenced the course of history. This week&#8217;s note is &#8220;How the Eruption of Thera [modern Santorini] Changed the World&#8221;:
The world map might look differently had the Greek volcano Thera not erupted 3,500 years ago in what geologists believe was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vox Romana VI</title>
		<link>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/27/vox-romana-vi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sixth Edition of Vox Romana, is a free bi-monthly podcast about all things Roman. In this edition: 
1. Introduction (Hortensia) &#124; 2. Classical News (Hortensia) &#124; 3. The Roman Calendar part 1 (Saturninus) &#124; 4. Plinian Rough Mix (Meredith Bragg) &#124; 5. Aeneid (Anna) &#124; 6. Sign off (Hortensia)
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		<link>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/25/37/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Golden Age of Athens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC has a nifty slide show documenting the very cool hi-tech cleaning of the Parthenon Marbles in Athens, which has removed decades of pollution.

Since the damage to the Athenian reliefs turned out to be less severe than previously thought, the cleaning has fueled the debate over whether the rest of the marbles, (in)famously known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greetings From Rome! Sarah at the Centro I</title>
		<link>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/18/sarahs-centro-journal-i/</link>
		<comments>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/18/sarahs-centro-journal-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Sarah writes&#8230; 
I&#8217;m finally able to refer to the mental map of Rome in my head, it&#8217;s really exciting to have free time and be able to go around the city, just me, my water bottle, bus pass, and copy of my passport (safety first). I went to the Victor Emmanuel monument at Piazza Venezia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Makeover: Plaster Edition</title>
		<link>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/11/extreme-makeover-plaster-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/11/extreme-makeover-plaster-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tri-Co News and Notes comes an update about a piece of Haverford&#8217;s Classical past:

Whitney Ale, teaching assistant for Haverford sculpture professor Marianne Weil, spent the tail end of fall semester restoring a 150-year old plaster- cast bust of the goddess Diana that once sat atop the shelves of the old Haverford Library.  As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Myth-istory</title>
		<link>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/04/making-myth-istory/</link>
		<comments>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/04/making-myth-istory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new poll, it seems Britons are busy turning their storied history into myth and legend (via AFP):
LONDON (AFP) - Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Father of History&#8221; on the PR circuit</title>
		<link>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/01/father-of-history-on-the-pr-circuit/</link>
		<comments>http://iris.haverford.edu/2008/02/01/father-of-history-on-the-pr-circuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Golden Age of Athens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Greek]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Herodotus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Herodotus and Robert Strassler&#8217;s new Landmark Herodotus took center stage yesterday on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;On Point with Tom Ashbrook&#8221; (program available in archive). No word on whether that inveterate Herodotus-hater Plutarch, author of &#8220;On the Malice of Herodotus&#8221;, was available for comment.
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