Emma Biggs

[Emma Biggs @EmmaBiggs6]

@ori_goldberg U

[Robert Hutton @RobDotHutton]

There are lots of questions I want to ask Reform people, mostly starting "about that five million quid", but it would be a shame to let this moment from Robert Jenrick slip past unnoticed.
https://t.co/pc9qqSP1Nt

[Emma Biggs @EmmaBiggs6]

@AyoCaesar Happy birthday you gorgeous clever being. You enhance the life of this 69 year old.

[Emma Biggs @EmmaBiggs6]

@jacobin Marquee? In the tombola or ice sculpture sense of the word?

[Emma Biggs @EmmaBiggs6]

Historical example of the benefits of religious, racial and cultural tolerance:

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Mosaics in the Ruggero Room at the Royal (Norman) Palace (1131-1154 AD), Palermo - Italy 🇮🇹

The Ruggero Hall is located within the Gioaria Tower in the Norman Royal Palace, which was built on an old Roman and Byzantine complex and subsequently converted into a fortress during the period of Arab domination. During 11th Century AD, Robert Guiscard and Count Roger d’Altavilla (Ruggero I) took up residence here, and later Ruggero II ordered its embellishment and extension for use as a royal palace. It contains the Palatine Chapel and also used to house the Tiraz, the silk workshop set up by the Arabs in which King Ruggero’s celebrated cloak was made (dated 1133–34, Schatzkammer of Vienna).

The Ruggero Room, a rectangular space covered with a cross vault, contains exquisite mosaic decoration above a high marble plinth, dating from the regency of Guglielmo (William) I (1170 AD). It covers the walls, lunettes, the undersides of the arches and the vault. Leopards, lions, harts, peacocks, centaurs and bowmen confront one another symmetrically amongst fruit trees and palms in the large lunettes. Spiral branches with leaves and flowers entwine the decorative elements of the vault, interrupted only by geometric bands (at the crossing points) and medallions with lions and griffins.

The Swabian eagle, within an octagon at the centre of the vault, dominates the composition, while the double-headed eagle appears on the keystones of the minor arches. The entire decorative structure is laid out on a single tessera background with gold leaf.
Thought to be the work of mosaicists trained in Byzantium, the iconographic themes of the mosaic cycle show clear eastern influence, more Persian and Seljuq than Arabic, as a result of the osmosis between the Islamic and Byzantine worlds.

🎥© antiqua_archeologia (IG)

#archaeohistories

[Emma Biggs @EmmaBiggs6]

https://t.co/GtIr0Z300T

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

The Lido café on Hampstead Heath is under threat!!!

The @cityoflondon is suddenly asking for bids from operators to run the this fantastic family-run cafe

I have asked @willupton & @GregoryJonesCC if it is possible for the café to be given a Direct Award
https://t.co/MvqXTtl2TQ

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

Israel killed nearly 100 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn, including children who were queuing for nutritional supplements. They need nutritional supplements because they are being starved, en masse, by Israel.
Don't look away. Stop arming Israel now.
https://t.co/g4WbSV3YCO

[BBC News Brasil @bbcbrasil]

🇵🇪 A incrível descoberta da cidade de 3.500 anos no Peru que ligava Amazônia e Andes ao Oceano Pacífico. Veja no vídeo

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

MUST WATCH!

American doctor in Gaza tells @amanpour of the "sheer terror" she experienced when Israel broke the ceasefire and began bombing Gaza again. But the doctor also calls out the media companies who are "manufacturing consent" for this genocide.

[Ruth Brooker @erbrooker]

Clinically vulnerable patients deserve so much better than this.

The UK's NHS hospitals need major investment to improve the ventilation in ALL areas. And to address its Infection Prevention Control policies.
#CleanAirInHealthcare
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[Pessimistic Persimmon @Kenneth33071904]

This reminds me of the time climate protestors made me late for work.

[Melanie Schweizer 🇩🇪 @schweizermel]

Well said @owenjonesjourno 👏❤️‍🔥

[Emma Biggs @EmmaBiggs6]

Our protests have been aimed at preventing this kind of horror. https://t.co/9K3ow28ctn

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

The scale of the flooding currently unfolding in Valencia, Spain is unfathomable. This is footage from Chiva, where a jaw-dropping 343 mm of rain was recorded in just 4 hours earlier today, between 4:30 PM and 8:30 PM.

Video credit: Nalabcer

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

This is genocide.

[Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD @el_sabawi]

The food crisis in Gaza has gotten worse.

[Emma Biggs @EmmaBiggs6]

Wisdom of SW Norfolk:

[Emma Biggs @EmmaBiggs6]

A gripping story of Germany's imperial past (the past of all colonial powers) with its emotional and physical legacy. https://t.co/q0RncWRtct