I had pretty good luck charming one princess.
Posted on 06/30/2013 2:47:37 PM PDT by OddLane
Critics have called Margalit Fox's new book, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, a paleographic detective procedural. It follows the story of the laborious quest to crack a mysterious script, unearthed in Crete in 1900, known by the sterile-sounding name Linear B.
Fox, an obituary writer for The New York Times, is good at bringing the departed to life. In The Riddle of the Labyrinth, she tells the story of Alice Kober, a classics professor at Brooklyn College, who worked alone over decades and discovered the essential grammar of Linear B, only to die in 1950 before she could complete her work.
Until now, Kober's contribution to Linear B had been largely overlooked, but Fox tells Jacki Lyden, host of weekends on All Things Considered, that the riddle of the script wouldn't have been solved without Kober.
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I just bought my first bottle of olive oil ever.
I still don’t understand the concept of “extra virgin”.
Uh uh, you're not going to tempt me into that conversation.
And that's a free sample of extra virgin :)
I just looked at my bottle and it says Filipo Berio and product of Italy. I guess it will only add a few years to my life.
The darn stuff is pretty expensive. I just wanted to try the stuff. My late wife and my late mother never used anything but good old American peanut oil, well Mother used a lot of lard.
A few years here and there add up. Hope you develop a taste for it.
Italian evoo is fine too. But oil from Crete is supposedly the best. If you live near a Trader Joe, check out their organic Greek evoo at a fairly reasonable price. I use it for pretty much everything, but
have to keep cooking temps below the smoking point because high heat changes it chemically to something not very good for you.
I wonder if is just an ancient form of ebonics?
I had pretty good luck charming one princess.
Hmmm...and that will work for a hedge maze too, I imagine.
Only a fool would say that; any educated person knows it says, "In every taste test, Bosco is best!"
Ahhh..... a 42’er
Most think the the answer to the ultimate question is 42 but it is written as forty-two which is actually 38.
Can you imagine your life hanging in the balance because of her or a jury of her peers?
No it won’t. You find your way out of a hedge maze by placing your hand on a hedge trimmer.
Haha...good one. I bet you’re an engineer.
Linear A is still undeciphered as is Cretan Hieroglyphic
Not much info in the article about how Kober went about her work.
Carbonell de cordoba at Ralph’s for $6/can. Very good extra virgin olive oil.
Thanks for the tip. Terrific price. But our area is Ralph's-free. Maybe someone else carries it. I remember Ralph's from my LA days...great stores.
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