Archive for March, 2014

March 6, 2014

The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus is the oldest known medical text of any kindKahun Papyrus

Warp (nautical use)

March 5, 2014

Warp:

To move a vessel by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.

oedConnection between “turning” and “throwing” is perhaps in the notion of rotating the arm in the act of throwing.

March 5, 2014

* Jean Arthur; consentaneous; Carthusian (“Stat crux dum volvitur orbis“); Rule of St. Benedict; Arnold Geulincx; infarct; climacteric; congius .92 gallons, (a hemina is a twelfth part of a congius). St. Benedict:

“Every one hath his proper gift from God, one after this manner and another after that” (1 Cor 7:7). It is with some hesitation, therefore, that we determine the measure of nourishment for others. However, making allowance for the weakness of the infirm, we think one hemina of wine a day is sufficient for each one.”

March 5, 2014

zizek essay . . . Khan academy . . . Mercury Theater on Air . . . Hartley Coleridge sonnets (“Oakling and Oak“) . . . England in 1819 . . . Ten Best Films of 1921 …

March 3, 2014

τῇ ῥα παραδραμέτην φεύγων ὃ δ᾽ ὄπισθε διώκων:
πρόσθε μὲν ἐσθλὸς ἔφευγε, δίωκε δέ μιν μέγ᾽ ἀμείνων
καρπαλίμως, ἐπεὶ οὐχ ἱερήϊον οὐδὲ βοείην
ἀρνύσθην, ἅ τε ποσσὶν ἀέθλια γίγνεται ἀνδρῶν,
ἀλλὰ περὶ ψυχῆς θέον Ἕκτορος ἱπποδάμοιο.

Iliad, 22. 157-161; Butler

March 3, 2014

“You Idlers! You wasters!
You fashion plates! You sit and sip
your wine while the naked back
of an unprotesting soldier of Christ
is lashed with the whip!

“You — who boast of the
blood of Aragorn and the
inheritance of Castile —
make merry while, all
about you, injustice
seethes!

“The heaven kissed hills
of your native California
swarm with the sentinels
of oppression! Are your
pulses dead? Thank God
mine is not — and I pledge
you my blood’s as noble
as the best!

“No force that tyranny
could bring would dare
oppose us — once united.
Our country’s out of joint.
It is for us cabalieros, and
us alone, to set it right!”

~Mark of Zorro~

March 2, 2014

‘They build as if they are to live forever; they live as if they are to die tomorrow.'(Megarians as reported by St. Jerome); fasciculation, “desal“, deckle, instauration, fetation, couvade, scaup, acathisia, tergiversation

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March 1, 2014

Once the recipient of a cheque (the payee) deposits it in his account, his bank immediately credits (increases) the payee’s account, assuming that the payer’s bank will ultimately send the funds to cover the cheque. Until the payer’s bank actually sends the funds, both the payer and the payee have the “same” money in both of their accounts…. float