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The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Posted by masterofcookies on Sunday June 02, 2019 @07:28AM
from the sacred-texts.com dept.

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Re:China’s Censors Ban Winnie the Pooh and the Letter ‘N’ After Xi’s P... on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:20AM (#16493234)

It certainly was not the first peaceful turn-over of power in history - there are many examples, but Cincinnatus[1] immediately sprang to my mind. He actually was given and then gave up dictatorial powers twice (note that being a dictator meant in the Roman political system something different than what it means today [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dictator

Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet on Monday January 16, 2017 @08:51AM (#13409929)

Just a small clarification: in OE ð and þ were used interchangeably. Between voiced sounds they were pronounced as in Modern English "then", otherwise as in Modern English "thin".

Guides to the Socratic Dialogues

Posted by masterofcookies on Saturday October 22, 2016 @05:52AM
from the users.hartwick.edu dept.

http://users.hartwick.edu/burringtond/dialogues/index.html

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Re:Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems with Digital C... on Friday March 25, 2016 @06:02AM (#11359263)

The author puts encyclopedic knowledge and movies in the same category ("information") and seems to be arguing that they both should be freely available.

I'm not saying that current copyright system isn't completely screwed up and in need of reform, but I don't think disregarding content creators is an optimal solution.