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My book in memory of Sophie is @thepoetrykit 's Book of the Month; it is being sold in aid of @smitf_london 's Vicar's Relief Fund for the homeless: https://t.co/2T0Z3HPt9T
If you'd like a copy, email your address, & I'll send you details of how to pay.

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@NCDrusus38 @antmoose @HawkeJon @p_historians @rogueclassicist @caputmundiHeidi @Livia_en_Roma @chapps @arakhnos Gosh, you're all at it...!

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@antmoose @HawkeJon @p_historians @rogueclassicist @caputmundiHeidi @Livia_en_Roma @NCDrusus38 @chapps @arakhnos Hmmm... do you think that you might possibly - just, you know, putting it very very tentatively - be almost in the region of having a microscopically slight saint fetishism problem...?

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@antmoose It does look much more like Constantine. Is there a reason that he isn't in it? And are you allowed to call Helena a sexy saint, when Waugh went to all that trouble to write her life as an earnest archaeologist?

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@ronnieandreggie @danbarker Why not? Bits of this and bits of that make life much more interesting... and there's no 'should have' about it. The imperial system is based on the human body, the metric is an imposed mechanical system. 240 is divisible by more numbers than 100...

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@antmoose @DrFrancisYoung I'm not sure that it works like that; if magic is involved, I think that you have to practice it...🙂

[For the love of Missy. @MissyBBBobtail]

Having cats is important for survival.
Dinosaurs didn't have cats and look what happened to them.

[Anthony Majanlahti @antmoose]

#EpigraphyTuesday returns us to the #VaticanMuseums where an #inscription looms over the #sarcophagus of the empress #Helena and doom hangs over her family. After the execution of her grandson #Crispus, Helena in her grief went to #Jerusalem to start relic-hunting.

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@antmoose Dear me. I thought when I saw her sarcophagus that it really didn't promise well...

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@antmoose @DrFrancisYoung Gosh! - and have you inherited their witchiness, and should we all be very afraid...? (esp on account of your list exclusion trauma)

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@BeardyHowse Moses discloses
that he comeses and goeses
through posies of Rowses
harmoniously...

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@ronnieandreggie @danbarker Well, the US IS quite large, & has been quite important. I don't know why you're arguing with me; I find conversion from Fahrenheit very tricky - I just think that the more one knows, the better, & I need to translate dimensions across countries and centuries...

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@MadameGilflurt Wonderful! - thank you 🙂🙂🙂

[Catherine Curzon @MadameGilflurt]

If you’d like to read the issue of Life, it’s at https://t.co/VpKrKsyShT; enjoy!

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

One of the most terrible things we will have to face in the future is learning, one way or another, how many people died in Mariupol in the spring of 2022, when Russia was leveling the city to the ground along with its inhabitants.

Among them were my former classmate and the father of a good friend of mine.

And how many more remain unknown to us, lying in the vast anonymous mass graves on the outskirts of Mariupol, visible even in satellite images.

[NewsThump @newsthump]

Nothing screams 'free speech enthusiast' quite like threatening to shut down an entire organisation because a couple of comedians made a joke about you. 🤷

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@fugitiveink Oh, we have one too; it has colonized two maple trees, and in spite of being radically pruned is a great billowing city of blossom, inhabited by several species of commuter bee. They come to work early, spend all day harvesting & investing nectar, going home on the evening train

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

La Marine nationale a arraisonné hier matin un nouveau pétrolier sous sanctions internationales en provenance de Russie : le Tagor. Notre détermination est constante et totale.

Cette intervention a été effectuée en Atlantique, en haute mer, avec le soutien de plusieurs partenaires dont le Royaume-Uni, dans le strict respect du droit de la mer.

Il est inacceptable que des bateaux contournent les sanctions internationales, violent le droit de la mer et financent la guerre que mène la Russie contre l’Ukraine depuis plus de 4 ans.

Ces navires, qui ne respectent pas les règles les plus élémentaires de navigation maritime, constituent également une menace pour l’environnement et pour la sécurité de tous.

[SaveOurChurchesUK @SaveukChurches]

For centuries, this medieval Cornish church lay hidden beneath the sand dunes.

Today, St Enodoc’s stands restored, a reminder that Britain’s churches are worth saving.

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@ronnieandreggie @SunnydaleDreams @danbarker But all of us come from that long period of overlap (which continues with pints and miles), so you're not actually speaking from a time when imperial measures have been lost and foregotten, but from a time when knowing both is to everyone's advantage...