by Dwane | Mar 24, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Italian, Latin
Cavalcade: A procession of riders on horseback. Or, a cavalcade might also be a ceremonial procession, as in, a parade. Cavalcades no longer require horses. These days, a cavalcade could be a procession of vehicles, as in, “the presidential cavalcade.” Several years...
by Dwane | Mar 24, 2015 | Ebook, Education, Latin, Visual Latin
“The language which diffused throughout the provinces of the empire was not the classical Latin of Tom Brown’s schooldays. It was the Latin spoken by the common people. Ever since Latin had become a literary language (in the third century B.C.) there...
by Dwane | Mar 23, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Italian, Latin, Visual Latin, Vocabulary
So, I have run out of “equus” words. The Latin word “equus” was not the everyday word for horse. Instead, equus was the classical word for horse. The average Roman citizen in the street had a completely different word, caballus. There is a dirty little secret...
by Dwane | Mar 23, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Greek, Vocabulary
Eohippus: according to the current wisdom, the eohippus is the ancestor of the modern horse. Based on fossils discovered in New Mexico in the late 1800’s, the eohippus was a small, horse like creature. This little herbivore had four toes on his forelegs, and three...
by Dwane | Mar 22, 2015 | Motivation
I usually do not post anything on Sundays. But, I thought I would share this with you all. My son is a budding film maker. He entered a film festival about a month ago. Long story, but, everything that could go wrong did go wrong. He thought he had no chance. Yet, at...
