Perfect timing. :) We’re studying the Picts this week in class. Thanks!
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Perfect timing. :) We’re studying the Picts this week in class. Thanks!
The trepanning (?) hole on the 6'5" guy with a potential pituitary tumor was fascinating!
Fascinating thread. Thank you very much for taking the time to post.
The same timeframe also finds Charles Newdigate Newdegate, the rabidly antisemitic MP.
The early welsh battles with the Romans are epic…
She’s a fascinating researcher and writer, isn’t she? I wish she posted on BlueSky.
Dr Caitlin Green at Cambridge is a great resource for place name questions. I’d pop her an email. www.caitlingreen.org
Congratulations! Very well deserved. It was a fabulous read.
The sciences are equally, if not more so, under attack in the US. Massive NIH funding cuts, equally brutal tallages on our top research universities, and the outright disavowal of the truth behind science.
Bots know the difference between deigned (a word) and daned (not a word, but maybe should be).
Perhaps this is too well known, but UCLA’s Oscar Wilde collection is amazing. And the Clark Library — where they are housed — may be the prettiest UC building of all.
Congratulations!
What a gorgeous carving. Merry Christmas, Dr. Oosthuizen!
Merry Christmas, Ulla! Opened presents with the kids last night, then played trivia til the wee hours. We’re off to Cinnamon Bazaar for Christmas curry in a few.
I keep a Dropbox folder of pdf sources for every paper I write. (Books aren’t included, obvs.) If I’m ever questioned, I’ll be able to share the link.
The butcher — and his compatriots in the extramural — probably would have spoken all three. Maybe not perfectly, but enough to get by.
Actually, Vindolanda was an auxiliary fort so it was populated by folks like the First Cohort of Tungrians or the Ninth Cohort of Batavians, both of whom spoke Germanic languages. Locals spoke Brittonic. And the command language was Latin. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Oh… priceless
Brant Broughton was refurbished in the 19th c. by Bodley. These angels are, apparently, mostly original. In the day, the angels' faces could have been modeled on notables such as bishops, major donors, or aristocracy. www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/brant_b...
Vanity Fair.
Shakespeare in Love gets my vote for worst supposedly-great movie
Today's last line... "'There is no one left,' McClure wrote, 'none but all of us." ... what a call to action.
Completely coincidentally, my kid is reading a book called Feed for school. It touches on compassion fatigue from media over-use. I think, societally, we're in the thick of that.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social is my political North Star these days.
Also, they are in stock via the creators’ website. jdandkateindustries.com
Fabulous fall of Rome candle with a carved Roman forum.
Mine has ridiculous pride of place in the bedroom.
Mater Castorum herself.
The HPV vaccine also has benefits for boys and men. Reduction of oropharyngeal cancer, anal cancer and penile cancer. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
We were driving in San Francisco on our way to a show when a fire truck came up behind us. A bunch of cars pulled off to the side to make room. The Waymo used the hole we made and impeded the fire engine’s progress. They’re a public safety hazard in more ways than one.
The library in question gets first dibs at the donated books.
