While English translations of Latin necessarily miss the poetic intention of the original somewhat, the effort is still worth making, sometimes again and again for hundreds of years.
Hadrian’s paean to his departing soul, while its inherent quality is apparently suspect, has nevertheless furnished scores of translations in English alone. Here are a good number, more than can be found elsewhere online, but fewer than are included in my primary source, an 1876 volume collecting over a hundred translations of varying quality by priests, scholars, and gentlemen who either knew Latin and translated therefrom Hadrian’s final composition, or recast it on their own by other means. They comprise an interesting study of the variety (and homogeneity) that proceeds from the process of translation.
LIDAR image of Amazon rainforest (Carnegie Airborne Observatory)
Astronomical, a 12-volume scale model of the solar system
Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship
Things not to worry about:
Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Chladni patterns, created by salt grains arranging themselves in response to harmonic vibrations
World War II in pictures at The Atlantic. The War always provides a little perspective.
PROTECT IP is a lunatic proposal, penned by a dinosauric industry concerned solely with the preservation of its own profits. It will do nothing to curb piracy while at the same time eroding fundamental freedoms of the internet.
The only people who can possibly be in favor of this bill are either ignorant of its implications or stand to gain by its passage. This desperate power grab by a diminishing elite fails to even comprehend the problems it aims to solve, and its blunt force methods are wide open for abuse, and very possibly unconstitutional.
Vintage Black Glamour - a side of the 20th century I hadn’t explored much
“Grand Piano keystone type, about 7 feet in length. Asexual in disposition, it serves as a pleasant-enough nap area for two toddlers curled in fetal position.”
Post-Moon immigration form
With Shooting Caught On Officer’s “Chest-Cam,” Tech Precedent To Be Set
Turning The iPhone Into A 350x Medical Microscope For Under $50
Italian Wikipedia Shuts Down In Protest Of Proposed Law
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