Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Emperor Constantine.  FYI to a certain grandma: Zuckerberg studied classics in high school.

I am always trying to get students to look at original sources from the ancient world.  We ended our spring semester in Greek class by studying what images Greek city states used for their coinage and deciphered some Greek abbreviations.  We also compared Alexander the Great's profile to our current US coinage.  Today, we attempted to recreate the coins via OREOS. 

Attributed to MW's mater:

The past, the present, and the future walk into a bar.....it was really tense!

HAHAHAE!  HAHAHAE!

An edition of J R R Tolkien's The Hobbit translated into Latin and titled Hobbitus Ille, will be published in September by HarperCollins to mark its 75th birthday. This joins my collection of Harry Potter and Winnie the Pooh translated into Latin.  Read more about the Hobbitus Ille HERE.