Peter Smale

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@DurhamWASP The thing of it is, we must live with the living - Montaigne

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@FischerKing64 I don’t know who proposed it but I like the claim that Shakespeare’s works were all written by someone else, who was also called Shakespeare.

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@Hitchslap1 They have decided that there are financial benefits which outweigh the social costs. That’s the only reason I can see.

[Durrell Society @DurrellSociety]

Even a functional artefact like the Pont du Gard is so huge in conception that its magniloquence is the equal of Westminster Abbey. But we must remember that it was dedicated to water, and water was a God.

— Lawrence Durrell

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@BretVDB But mine what? That this question is never answered is for me, a geologist, a great flaw in this otherwise great poem.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

He's back 😄

#archaeohistories

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@grammarandco @IntoTheVoiet3 @RaminNasibov Made out of what?

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@mathemetica And temperature variations

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@TeddyRmble @FischerKing64 Interesting movie about zabriskie point with a pink floyd soundtrack. Ends with a loud explosion funnily enough

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@AuronMacintyre Because they thought it would be possible to eliminate fascism in all its forms and thereby prevent future wars.

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@niklasgv Great to see a photo of him as a young man

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@VeraCausa9 Loving these. Thank you.

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@brockpierson I should add that I started over at 44 and now, 13 years later, I believe he was substantially correct.

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@brockpierson I think Freeman Dyson said something to the effect that you can start over at any age, you just need courage and a sense of humour.

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@HWarlow 😂 it’s all that paperwork just kills it!

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

William Nicholson painted Sydney and Beatrice Webb (founders of the LSE) at their country house, Passfield Corner, in Liphook, Hampshire between March and June 1928. The painting was paid for by subscription; contributors included Churchill and George Bernard Shaw.

[Peter Smale @PeterSmale6]

@ShalnevaE @NobelPrize Of course, gypsy, who instantly saw through it to its unlovely bones, could have said it more beautifully, but alas! he did not, and we are left with the conrad.

[Alexandre Blaineau @AlBlaineau]

Delft au temps de Vermeer et aujourd’hui

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

This is a mosaic floor artwork titled "Olaismo" by artist Diango Hernández.