Steven Mark Calascione

Old Oratorian 🇬🇧 living in the land of my birth 🇲🇹.

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

Isaiah's vision of universal peace at the End of Days. #Jerusalem ⭐️🐝
Source: The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa) from Qumran Cave 1 dated to the 1st century BCE. Government of Israel. Accession number: HU 95.57/27

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

A Typhoon two-ship from 18º Gruppo, 37º Stormo out on high-alpha QRA training this afternoon, followed by a "Jedi" HH-139 three-ship from 82° Centro C.S.A.R. 🇮🇹 ⚡️

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

@hoyer_kat From the family archives: When my great aunt Yvonne went to Berlin in 1938 to study piano with the Michałek family, she recalled an elderly Jewish couple so paralyzed by fear they wouldn't open their door more than a crack when she called on them.

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

@TAGHeuer @Max33Verstappen @redbullracing Brilliant. 👏👏👏

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

@oelma__ Ines. From the Greek root Ἁγνή meaning holy, sacred, or pure.

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

More chocolate, fewer missiles. Probably my favourite brand. I 💕 @marksandspencer. Keep it up, chaps.
#FairTrade #TradeNotTirades

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

Reference: Martini, F., et al. (2014). The latest Ursus spelaeus in Italy: A new contribution to the extinction chronology of the cave bear. Quaternary Research. Cambridge Core (3/3)

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), a massive Ice Age species once roamed Europe. Evidence from Chiostraccio Cave in Tuscany, dates its extinction to 29.2 – 28.5 ka cal. years BP. Humans and bears competed for caves before the LGM. (1/3) #MaterialCulture #LatePleistocene
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[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

🌍 Cave bear extinction likely linked to declining vegetation during MIS 2—herbivores couldn't keep pace as the climate cooled. Ecosystem included wolves, boars & deer. #Paleoecology (2/3)

[Bishop CJ Scicluna @BishopScicluna]

The Owner & Developer said: “the tree was there first!” A buon intenditor, poche parole. Intelligenti pauca.

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

Blurred genres and paleolithic spaces. 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀

@OwenBonnici
@UNESCO

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

Tilley does spring to mind TBH. 🌱☀️

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

Evidently, a small population of Cervus elaphus sicila survived well into the Holocene on the receding shorelines of south Sylvania (Malta). Well done indeed to all concerned!

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

Rediscovered: stunning coralline antler lithic from "Sylvania", with beautifully crafted brow, bay & trez tines of Cervus elaphus sicilia (3-horned spp., extinct Late Pleistocene, sans deux cornes). #Corking #Archaeology #SicilyMalta #WorldHeritageSite #MindInTheCave #LostFound

[•Owen Bonnici @OwenBonnici]

Exciting news – Maltese prehistory is set to be rewritten thanks to archaeological discoveries at Latnija Cave. Excavations have been ongoing since 2019, led by the Max Planck Institute with the University of Malta and the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage. Well done to all!

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

Galea, Albert. "Photograph of President Anton Buttigieg and his wife." 40 years since Freedom Day: The Road to the Departure of the British., 31 Mar. 2019, https://t.co/iDwyZubrvE. Accessed [30 March 2025]. Twitter: @MaltaIndependent.

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

#OTD in 1979, HMS London left Malta, after 179 years of British presence as President Buttigieg and his wife look on. Listen to Rear-Admiral Cecil as he signs off from the BFBS station at Floriana: https://t.co/vOMAJYU1GH
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Photo: National Archives of Malta (@Malta_Archives)

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

#OTD in 1935, Reynoldstown won the Grand National at Aintree, first raced in 1839. Horse racing began in Malta under the Knights of St. John (1530-1798), with the Marsa track opening under British rule in 1868. #HistoryRemembersKings 🏇 🇲🇹 🇬🇧

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

Been nigh on 40 years since I last laid hands on a copy of Francisco Balbi's grippin' yarn. Who hasn't heard of this? #HistoryMatters 🇲🇹 🇹🇷

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

Note: Illustrated in Italian Renaissance, not Gothic style. (2/2)

To: @Bundeskanzler

C.c. @POTUS @VP @SecRubio @SecKennedy

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

@ZelenskyyUa wearing a suit at his swearing-in ceremony in 2019. The Constitution of Ukraine in the background, his right hand is about to be placed on the Peresopnytsia Gospels (1556 -1561) interestingly written in Cyrillic but illustrated in Italian #Renaissance style. (1/2)

[Steven Mark Calascione @CalascioneMark]

@CcibChris Concorde (G-BOAC or G-BOAD?) may have dropped to 50-60,000 FT and slowed to Mach 1.5-1.6 for this early delivery F2/F3 (e.g. ZD890 or ZE166?) to keep pace long enough. Est. fuel burn 400-600 KGS/min at full reheat w/max fuel of 7,097 LTS in clean configuration. 🚀⏱️ #thenumbers