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Life’s a painting and you’re the artist. But you are never finished. Each day is made up of a dozen different sketches, alone they will never be more than that, a sketch, yet they make up the context of our lives.

This is my sketch, one done with love.

Olivia




  • Music in Ancient Rome

    Roman music? In fact you will find fewer examples of music than one would think, given the Roman's culture inspired many aspects of our modern western society, Rome did not, however, contribute much to music as the Greeks did. Although they conquered their territories,…

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  • Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day

    The Origins of Rome History and legend blend irretrievably together when we attempt to explain the origins of Rome. Leaving aside what tradition tells, long before the city was founded, the peninsula of Italy was inhabited by many different groups of people. Some of…

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  • Canon Muratori

    The Muratorian fragment also called Canon Muratori, is the oldest known cast or index of the New Testament books. It was discovered by Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750), father of Italian historiography, in Latin from the 8th century, originating from Bobbio Abbey and discovered in…

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    Canon Muratori
  • Sometimes I am given pause to ask; "What can I do to contribute to nature conservation?" Here are some of the things that I have on my list to answer that question: Recycling Use less water Lower heating consumption Get around on the road,…

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  • The conception of a green world has gained increasingly important in the space of our society. Fridays For Future, Extinction Rebellion, and other grassroots style movements have taken a prominent position in media, opening up a platform for debate about the current state of…

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  • What kind of shoes did the Romans wear and how did they make their shoes? The answer to that question(s) is simple. They made and wore primarily sandals. Fashionable right? Yet unlike today, almost all shoes were made on strips of wood, which were…

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  • What do the different species mean to our planet? The vastly different species are the building blocks of biodiversity and ecosystems, but over time more animal species are added to the list of endangered animals, according to data from the International Union for Conservation…

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  • Biologist E. O. Wilson estimated in 2002 that if current rates of human destruction of the biosphere continue, one-half of all plant and animal species of life on earth will be extinct in 100 years. — E.O. Wilson, "The Future of Life" (2002) (ISBN…

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  • Sinister Interests

    Sinister Interests are a political concept developed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) from 1794, when his project to build a panopticon prison in Millbank(London) was approved by the English parliament. This prison was never built because two important aristocratic families (Spencer and Grosvenor) used the…

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  • When a small group lives within a larger society, maintaining their unique cultural identities, and lifestyles we refer to this as cultural pluralism. This is an idea that is not uncommon in our modern society. The idea of cultural pluralism in America has its…

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