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“Make it happen” by Martina Flor.

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Step-wells in India by Victoria Lautman

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Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2016

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Sign languages of Canada and the US excluding ASL and LSQ.

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Fun facts for people who think Canada is a massive utopian Drake concert with unlimited poutine:

The Canadian government just passed Bill C-51, an “anti-terrorism” bill.

It give greater surveillance power to even more government agencies, and the ability for government agencies to share greater information with each other.

It gives the police greater ability to arrest without warrants (arresting “on suspicion”).

It allows people to be charged and jailed for the loosely-defined act of “promoting terrorism” (regardless of any actual terrorist activity), raising questions about freedom of speech.

Another bill recently passed is C-24, affecting Canadian citizenship.

It makes becoming a citizen a longer and and more expensive process.

It outlines conditions in which the government can revoke a person’s citizenship, mostly related to terrorism, spying, or treason (even if not convicted in Canada). This affects dual citizens and not born Canadians, and therefore essentially creates two-tier, “second-class” citizenship. Canadians who are eligible for dual citizenship (by having parents from another country) are affected by this as well.

An example of the potential consequences of this is the case of Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who by law could have had his Canadian citizenship revoked due to being charged with terrorism in Egypt.

In 2006 the Canadian government put barriers in place preventing scientists from speaking to media outlets about their research without first getting approval from the government.

The current Prime Minister is a climate change denier.

In 2012 the Canadian government decreased the level of healthcare available to people with refugee status, claiming that it was preventing “bogus” claims.

The Canadian Senate is a legislative body that is appointed by the prime minister. They are not elected by the public, and therefore not accountable to constituents. Members of the Senate are embroiled in scandal, from invalid expense claims to having sex with an underage girl.

Racism is alive and well in Canada.

Canada faces the crisis of hundreds of missing Aboriginal women. Aboriginal women risk a homicide rate 4.5 times higher than the national average. The current Prime Minister went on record to say that the issue “isn’t really high on our radar”.

On a local level, Toronto Police have not abolished the practice of “carding” (random ID checking) that disproportionately affects young black men.

Anti-immigrant sentiments and active hate just simply continue.

According to Statistics Canada, the gender wage gap in 2011 was 26%. The average woman made $0.74 for every dollar the average man made.

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Stephen Harper’s government is trying to ban the niqab, an islamic face covering during all citizenship ceremonies

Stephen Harper says the practice of covering one’s face with a niqab is “rooted in a culture that is anti-women”

A First Nations womens group that has helped women for 40 years has lost all its funding by the Government

Half of First Nations children live in poverty

Access to affordable, healthy food in Canada’s north nears crisis

Stephen Harper’s War On Women

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by Ronnie Ancona and Kathleen Durkin There is a shortage of certified Latin teachers in the United States. Latin teaching positions at the precollegiate level sometimes cannot be filled for lack of qualified applicants. In New York State, for example, where we both teach, in 2012-2013 and 2013-2014, Latin was named specifically as a language with a teacher shortage by the United States Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education.

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North American native tribes and their home regions.

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The Rosetta Stone

A valuable key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the inscription on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests. It is one of a series that affirm the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation (in 196 BC).

In previous years the family of the Ptolemies had lost control of certain parts of the country. It had taken their armies some time to put down opposition in the Delta, and parts of southern Upper Egypt, particularly Thebes, were not yet back under the government’s control. Before the Ptolemaic era (before about 332 BC), decrees in hieroglyphs such as this were usually set up by the king. It shows how much things had changed from earlier times that the priests, the only people who had kept the knowledge of writing hieroglyphs, were now issuing such decrees. The list of good deeds done by the king for the temples hints at the way in which the support of the priests was ensured.

The decree is inscribed on the stone three times, in hieroglyphic (suitable for a priestly decree), demotic (the native script used for daily purposes), and Greek (the language of the administration). The importance of this to Egyptology is immense.

Soon after the end of the 4th century AD, when hieroglyphs had gone out of use, the knowledge of how to read and write them disappeared. In the early years of the 19th century, scholars were able to use the Greek inscription on this stone as the key to decipher them. Thomas Young (1773–1829), an English physicist, was the first to show that some of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name, that of Ptolemy.

The French scholar Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) then realised that hieroglyphs recorded the sound of the Egyptian language and laid the foundations of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian language and culture. Champollion made a crucial step in understanding ancient Egyptian writing when he pieced together the alphabet of hieroglyphs that was used to write the names of non-Egyptian rulers. He announced his discovery, which had been based on analysis of the Rosetta Stone and other texts, in a paper at the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres at Paris on Friday 27 September 1822. The audience included his English rival Thomas Young, who was also trying to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. Champollion inscribed this copy of the published paper with alphabetic hieroglyphs meaning ‘à mon ami Dubois’ (‘to my friend Dubois’). Champollion made a second crucial breakthrough in 1824, realising that the alphabetic signs were used not only for foreign names, but also for the Egyptian language and names. Together with his knowledge of the Coptic language, which derived from ancient Egyptian, this allowed him to begin reading hieroglyphic inscriptions fully.

Soldiers in Napoleon’s army discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799 while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). On Napoleon’s defeat, the stone became the property of the British under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) along with other antiquities that the French had found.

The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, with only one break. Towards the end of the First World War, in 1917, when the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London, they moved it to safety along with other, portable, 'important’ objects. The Rosetta Stone spent the next two years in a station on the Postal Tube Railway 50 feet below the ground at Holborn.

Find out more in this BBC podcast about the Rosetta Stone.