Pie (charts), speeches, and music: Thanksgiving Day Links

Happy Thanksgiving!
(I am thankful for the plethora of links this week.)
A pie chart and bar graph of the reigns and causes of death of Roman emperors.
Evidence suggests gladiators ate plant ash for bone strength.
Archaeologists claim to have found remnants of the Trojan Horse.
The disparities between English and Latin pronoun usage.
Ted Cruz modifies Cicero’s famous First Oration in speech against president.
Gregory Crane weighs the pros and cons of becoming a professor of Classics.
An interesting new online Latin course through comics.
Young composers explore an ancient Latin text and what ancient Greek music sounded like.

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