Dr. Nicholas Heavens

🇬🇧/🇺🇸 terrestrial planet system scientist now in insurance. Views my own, not my employer’s. Fellow @geolsoc, @RoyalAstroSoc, @RMetS, @burgonsoc.

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Diane smiled tautly. “You’re suggesting we have to save the world so science can proceed?”
“Yes, if you want to put it that way. If you’re lacking a better reason to do it.”--Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain

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@IncredPapist_ There’s a very strong liturgical history argument that coronation is a form of Holy Orders, as early rites borrowed liberally from the ordering of bishops.

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@KatinOxford Doing numbers. I saw that on the Sidcup commuter train to London yesterday.

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@CanonRobinWard @aisiantonas @ClarkeMicah It was an exciting place.

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@CanonRobinWard @aisiantonas @ClarkeMicah There would have been several veterans studying at Cambridge after their military service, though, including while hostilities were ongoing. In 1820, you could talk to a man at Magdalene who had been wounded at Trafalgar at 16.

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@ladygreenkirtle @achillghost I believe this is post-Christian Norse literature, too, as the Orkney Saga records that the boss of these Vikings was a Crusader.

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Do you have a loicence for that zoo? I wonder what the renewal process is like. Hopefully in process.

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@GrenadaLoyalist I love that they both have obvious Norman surnames.

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@thealepalombo Though maybe C, because I might just be able to miss the Polesine forever to have Rome and Sardinia.

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@thealepalombo B

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This must have been a bit of a family party in 1749, when the Mayor was the Vicar’s son.

[Fr Anthony Howe @fathergarlick]

Delighted to preach for the mother of Oak Apple Day celebrations at All Saints Northampton. After the service, the mayor places a wreathe of oak leaves on the statue of Charles II. It’s been going on for centuries and one of England’s glorious eccentricities!

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@distantcities @_F_B_G_ I think Anthony Powell is underrated as a humourist.

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@_F_B_G_ Paul Zahl had something like this. I’d be curious what it would sound like on this side of the water.

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I really need to read people’s Wikipedia articles before I dine with them. Or not.

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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer @tc1415 If you include the East of England with the Southeast and London, you get around a third of the population of England and a little over half the GDP. Little less than half total UK GDP.

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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer

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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer Berwick is forecast at 27 C. I see your point, but that line is well off.

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@NicholasOShaug1 I’ve seen a cathedral rebuilt by Stalin. He was fairly conservative about church architecture.

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My historical conspiracy theory is that once the Captain of the Mayflower realised they had been driven off course, he aimed to land in Massachusetts to get help from Sir Ferdinando Gorges’s agent, Tesquantum. One wonders if William Bradford ever figured this out.

[Just Loki @LokiJulianus]

One of the first Indians the Pilgrims ran into spoke English.

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@Se_Railway Cheers!

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Hi, @Se_Railway , I signaled the 9:13 rail replacement bus at the Mottingham station stop next to the Tarn Bird sanctuary. Bus driver somehow missed me and my three children.

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@Se_Railway 9:14 AM. I was trying to catch the bus toward Lewisham.