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The town of Wallsend, in North Tyneside, was the end of Hadrian's Wall, constructed by the Romans to defend the border of the Empire against the rebelling tribes beyond. To commemorate this historical connection (which is also reflected in the town's name), since 2003 most of the signs in Wallsend station on the Tyne and Wear Metro have been in both English and Latin.

And, of course, we thank Punki for posting some examples on Flickr, one of the best of which is reproduced below.

Many thanks to the Latinstudy list for bringing this great fact to my attention.

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Gac Filipaj has been a janitor at my Alma Mater, Columbia University, for 20 years. During all this time, he has been taking courses, using his employee course credits to first learn English and then to take Latin and Greek, which of course was my major at Columbia 40 years ago. Well, next week he will receive his bachelor's degree in Latin and Greek. With honours. He is now going to apply to the graduate school to study for a PhD in classics.

For being a student by day and a janitor by night, and outperforming a lot of privileged young undergraduates, I nominate Gac as my

Brick of the Day © Fr. MadPriest.

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The Internationale never sounded so classical!

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Julius Caesar walks into a local bar.

"I'll have a martinus." he says.

Bartender: "Don't you mean a martini?"

"Look, buddy. If I want more than one, I'll let you know."

(drum riff)

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'...I told him, "Julie, don't go!"'

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If you are Caesar, or have Caesarian pretentions, beware!

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I think that only Jesuits might possibly qualify for jobs in this area.

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