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If you’re into wine or beer, you’ve likely come across a few “wine snobs” or “beer geeks.” While they might seem like a modern phenomenon, millennia of evidence proves otherwise. But like everything in history, it depends on where you look.
Take Pliny the Elder, a 1st-century general and author during the Roman Empire. During his military campaigns, he recorded what soldiers from different regions drank the night before battle. It was often beer, according to Travis Rupp, a beer archaeologist who teaches courses on Greek and Roman history at the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus.
Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave @ Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Legion of Honor // May 07, 2021 - August 29, 2021
May 07, 2021 | in Installation
Furnishing Unknown Artist, Strongbox with Appliques, AD 1 - 79 Cassaforte Bronze, iron, silver, copper 40.2 x 55 x 31.5 inches HLD (102 x 140 x 80 cm HLD) Parco Archeologico di Pompei Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave installation at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco Photography by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave installation at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco Photography by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Sep 27, 2016
It has been a common belief that low-emissions vehicles, like hybrids and electric cars, are more expensive than other choices. But a new study finds that when operating and maintenance costs are included in a vehicle s price, cleaner cars may actually be a better bet.
The cars and trucks we drive are responsible for about a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions in this country. That s why Jessika Trancik, an energy scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, decided it was time to take a closer look at vehicle emissions.