Daphnetree

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

@granstorey

[David Hayden @seventydys]

tattered tales

James Schuyler, ‘Cornflowers’

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

You don’t say. https://t.co/BFx7C0GQNE

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

The note Verlaine sent to his wife, Mathilde, after he left her for Rimbaud again. This is when she finally filed for a separation.

[Electra Rhodes - writes a bit/archaeologises a bit @electra_rhodes]

When my mum was diagnosed with cancer & told it was terminal the doctor asked her 3 questions - what matters to you most in the time you've left? Is no pain more important than being constantly alert? What efforts do you want us to make to keep you alive, just to keep you alive?

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

A CALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
(LIKE and RT)

Thomas Joseph Kendrick was a Top Spymaster with the British Secret Service across the 20th century.

He was assigned as SIS chief of station in Vienna and tracked Communist agents across Europe in the 1920s and Nazi spies in the 1930s.

[Gavin Mortimer @PhoneyMajor]

1/
April 15: a patrol of 1SAS was the first Allied unit to enter Belsen.
In subsequent decades tales have grown tall about what actually happened.
This thread is based on accounts of the SAS men definitely present, none of whom ever forgot that dreadful spring day in 1945.

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

W.G. Sebald in an interview (1998): “The reverse of melancholy is always irony. One is amused about one’s distress occasionally and they are two complementary moods and you can’t really have the one without the other. … And if you happen to get into this profession of writing,

[The Beat with Ari Melber @TheBeatWithAri]

Defendant Trump under oath today in another fraud case. @AWeissmann_ and Danny Greenberg join.

[Javi Lopez ⛩️ @javilopen]

"American Girl in Italy" (1951) is one of the most iconic photos of all time.

It tells a powerful story and raises big questions: is it a staged scene? were these men harassing the girl?

I'm going to tell you the true story behind this photo 🧵👇

[Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again @SeamusHeaneyNLI]

Today would have been Seamus Heaney's 84th. birthday, so it is a good time to share a link to a veritable treasure trove of material that @rte have put together from their archives in 'Seamus Heaney - A celebration'.

https://t.co/l8W7yPPSIq
Photo: Louis Quail/Getty

[Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads/Insta)🌻 @AWeissmann_]

and we are still fighting it.....

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

The presence of my children affects me with deep weariness and depression

- Evelyn Waugh

[Daphnetree @Daphnetree1]

@Kate_Seear @FrancisAwartefe Worse that Parer. WW2 acronyms are just not cricket...

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

For Grace, After a Party
by Frank O’Hara

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

As the Watergate scandal breaks open, the Nixon family celebrates Easter at their home on Key Biscayne, Florida, fifty years ago this month. What do you see in this photograph?

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Speaking of the hero with a thousand faces, the film teacher @Bertrom shows this in his "Film Industry and Synergy" class:

[Karen Cutter @KarenCutter4]

The COVID-19 Mortality Working Group of the Actuaries Institute has released updated estimates of excess mortality for Australia for 2022.

TLDR: confirmed 20,000 excess deaths and COVID-19 third leading cause of death in 2022

https://t.co/go7GnKPXIh