February 2012
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January 2012
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“In a profession which specialises in hypocrisy, Mr Gingrich’s performance stands...”
– Newt Gingrich harried Bill Clinton for having sex with an intern 27 years his junior when he was having sex with a staffer 23 years younger than himself. His arrogance, meanwhile, verges on monomania. He once wrote of himself as the “definer of the forces of civilisation”. (via theeconomist)
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“For a while now psychologists have debated just what that picture looks like....”
– from “How Our Brains Navigate the City” By Eric Jaffe, The Atlantic (via tinkerkid)
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“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But...”
– General Sir Charles James Napier on the practice of sati in India.
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“The cost of excavating, which Duncan Mackenzie had predicted “would...”
– William L. Reed, The Excavations at Dibon in Moab
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519. The best way to ruin an apology is with an...
December 2011
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508. Eat like a local, tip like an American.
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“Archaeology is fortunate to have such a distinctive method at the heart of
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– Matt Edgeworth, Excavation as a Ground of Archaeological Knowledge
November 2011
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“Archaeologists are self-selected from a specific genetic type, one of whose...”
– Mary Sellers - The Secret Notebook for the Practicing Archaeologist
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“…a common unresisted temptation is to let one’s girl friend hold the...”
– Historical Archaeology, Noel Hume, 1969
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October 2011
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