Note: I just learned of this notice but still want to pass on the news. If you have completed beads you’d like to submit, there is still time to enter your submission for consideration for Lark Book’s new 500 series book, to be published in 2014. The following comes from the Lark site, source link…
(Note: The following story by Tom Trusky has been preserved on this site. The original is no longer in place at the school site. As a result, a number of the original links for the January 2011 story no longer worked and needed to be updated. It’s still a good story and record and I’m…
Note: Part of the earliest known manuscript can be viewed here. It is a transcription by George Keats; the first draft was lost. For an explanation of the poem or background about it, click here. To see a photo of the actual Sosibios Vase, about which the poem is written, click here. For more information…
We know the act of writing on clay tablets is an ancient practice. To date, the oldest that have been found are the unearthed at neolithic sites in modern-day Romania and Hungary. The three Tărtăria Tablets have been radio-carbon dated to 5500 BC and are thought to be evidence of proto-writing. For me, today’s post,…
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