New Year’s Resolution
The recurring New Year’s Resolution: “Keeping up with technology.” Sigh!
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Happy New Year.
Happy New Year. Patricia and I spent New Year's in New York this time. Observations: The city changed a lot and then again it didn't. There are definitely more "new parents" to be seen now, the Times Square area is no longer a place to be scared of, quite a few subway lines and stations got a makeover ... still, it doesn't feel that much different from back in '96 when I moved back to Germany (I've been...
7 years.
A beginner's guide to the Latin language, part 1. In a world that was better governed than the one in which we are forced to dwell, Latin was the foundation of the educational system, and the fountain of literacy: to know how to read and write was to know how to read and write Latin. Knowing Latin, you could speak to anyone else who had been educated under the same...