Martin Dillon

Editor of also Emperor King of all geeks. All tweets do not represent anyone else, just me. I have enough trouble with reality

[Retromania 52K+ 🆑assics & M🅾️torsport Lovers @Retromania4ever]

🇬🇧 1959 #Jaguar XK150 Roadster in Imperial Maroon.

[Chef 👨‍🍳 @f_bites]

Perfect American breakfast 🥞?

[Food Time @Food__Authentic]

Are you a burger lover?

[Food Diaries @Travelodge_G]

Do you like Big Bacon Cheeseburger?

[Food Diaries @Travelodge_G]

Perfect American breakfast 🥞?

[Food for foodies @food_For_Foodie]

French Onion Beef Short Rib Soup

[Jagmans Car Magazine @JagmansM]

Oh man ,,,, what a car … nothing today comes even close to. Its ART

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

A 6001 years old tree, in Tanzania. The oldest tree in the world 🌎

[Retromania 52K+ 🆑assics & M🅾️torsport Lovers @Retromania4ever]

💂‍♀️🇬🇧💂‍♀️ #Jaguar in British Racing Green

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

800 years old Linden tree

[Jagmans Car Magazine @JagmansM]

Look at the length of that hood on the Jaguar XK150, it feels like it goes on forever.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Olive Tree of Vouves - the world’s oldest living olive tree is in Crete, Greece 🇬🇷

The oldest olive tree in the world is located in the village of Ano Vouves of Kissamos in Chania, Crete, Greece. The ancient tree is 3000 years old, as determined by the international scientific community. This tree likely lived through writing of Iliad (golden age of Athens), rise of Roman Empire, and birth of Christ; and then lived for 2000 years after that. It still produces olives, as well.

The ancient olive tree in Vouves has a trunk with a circumference of 12.5m, and a diameter of 4.6m. It belongs to the local tree variety of tsounati and was grafted at a height of three meters onto a wild olive tree. Because of the grafting, its trunk has been so beautifully shaped by nature that it resembles a sculpture. In 1990, after a unanimous decision in the prefecture of Chania, the Vouves Olive Tree was declared a Natural Monument of great importance due to its status as the world’s oldest tree of its kind.

The fruits of the ancient olive tree produce the best olive oil in the world, making the area the cradle of olive cultivation on the island of Crete. Trunk of the tree is now hollow as there is no heartwood, so the olive is renewed outward and the heartwood gradually rots away. Since the olive tree is constantly renewing its wood, it has served as a a symbol of immortality since ancient times.

Thousands of tourists visit the stunning tree every summer to marvel at it and learn its history. They are mainly impressed by its enormous shape and the imposing volume of the trunk but also by the fact that it has remained alive and fruitful for 3000 years. The site of the olive tree, including the entire hill on which several villages are situated, has thousands of olive trees and the villages are widely believed to produce the best olive oil in the world.

The olive tree has been associated with Greece for millennia. It symbolizes peace and prosperity, as well as the hope of resurrection and prosperous life. The typically Mediterranean Greek landscape is dotted with these trees, and Greeks throughout the centuries have been inextricably linked with this plant.

For Ancient Greeks, the olive tree was one of two of the most respected mythical trees, along with the oak. The deeply rooted love and respect shown to this tree by Greeks has survived throughout the centuries.

In ancient Greece, Olive Oil is known as “Liquid Gold,” as Homer called it, has been part of Greece’s history since antiquity. It is an irreplaceable nutritional component of the Greek diet. Ancient Greeks also used olive oil as part of their efforts to enjoy a healthy life and to promote longevity, and used it as a cosmetic for the skin and hair. Today, Greek olive oil is considered by most as the best in the world.

The history of humanity’s use of the olive dates back to ancient history. In his work “Origine des plantes cultivées,” botanist Augustin Pyrame de Candole writes that our cultivation of the tree started some time around 4000 BC and that its origin is from the coasts of Asia Minor.

Today, throughout the world, there are approximately 800 million olive trees of which approximately 95% are cultivated in the Mediterranean basin, which has best soil and climatic conditions for olive cultivation. The olive is widely grown all over in Greece. Its cultivation, which is greater than any other type of fructiferous tree, occupies approximately 15% of cultivated agricultural land and 75% of arboraceous cultivations in the country.

#archaeohistories

[Jagmans Car Magazine @JagmansM]

The Jaguar E-Type is the perfect blend of British grit and undeniable elegance.

[The English Oak Project @TheKentAcorn]

Near Glastonbury in a land of religious importance in pre-Christian times, & near an Iron Age hill-fort, lives a 1,700 year old yew

The tree, as a likely site of pagan worship & like many ancient yews, has a 14th century church deliberately built next to it

Hallowed ground

[Jagmans Car Magazine @JagmansM]

Never know what you’ll see in the neighborhood. 1962’Jaguar Mk2 3.8 Opalescent Dark Blue,

[The English Oak Project @TheKentAcorn]

A 400 year old Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) in Fredville Park, the Kingdom of Kent

A standard 6’ 6’’ Oliver as a size guide

[Chef 👩🏻‍🍳 @chefsevenn]

What would you name this Burger ??

[The English Oak Project @TheKentAcorn]

NEVER EVER ANNOY AN OAK TREE 🫣

[Heritage Matters🔱 @HeritageMatterz]

Porcelain Peacock blue Vase by Mintons, late 19th Century.

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

And that's a life lesson right there lil’ one! Just takes a little courage.

I love when babies trust themselves. ❤️