M Risno

Reader of books, attempter of humour, professional translator

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@lukeisamazing Something for @sentantiq - wasn't Popsikles one of the minor Achaeans in the Iliad, famous for being coolheaded and coldblooded in battle, even though armed just with a stick?

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@fakehistoryhunt Greg, but make it the Olympian version

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@chartres_Fiona @StroudStory @CathyRLowe @todbooklady @churchartnature Is it known what lurks beneath yonder plywood?

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@DavidMuttering Good company, wine, food, and fine malt to you! Vivat, crescat, floreat

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@robnitm I travelled in these slam door carriages both on Southwest and Southern Railways in the early noughties, true workhorses

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@william_whyte I remember a neighbour dispute some years ago, about a garden fence moved eight or nine inches into the adjoining property. It all went downhill from encroachment to ABH, injured pets, and thousands of pounds of damages. All in genteel Surrey

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@OGTaylorB @sentantiq It's the "Who shot JR" moments of the classics (comparisons shows my vintage). Oddly enough, that man *was* polytropos enough

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@qikipedia Anamorphosis was well known to both artists and connoisseurs from the 16th Century onwards, see the slightly later Edward VI and Charles I portraits. Plato mentions skewed perspectives, and Leonardo da Vinci is sometimes credited with the (re)invention of the technique

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Whenever this is completed, @The_Fence_Mag should automatically award their prize

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City approves towers despite 1,000 objections ➡️ https://t.co/xLF5Fr5Q6X

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@JR_Dickenson @Larkspurr44 Some of the portraits are the General's predecessors, the most famous being Tom Payne, who lorded over the pub 2002 - 2012

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@WeirdMedieval One of the best Scottish culinary delicacies excepting haggis, neeps and tatties with peppercorn sauce

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@WalkerMarcus I give you the one and only Dr. John

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@OptimoPrincipi Romanian has "vorbești de lup (și lupul la ușă)", speak of the wolf (and the wolf's at the door)

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@mcmansionhell Romanian modernist architecture, cca 1925-1945. This is Villa Solly Gold by Marcel Iancu, 1934

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'Books are like cheese' Barnaby Rich, 1610

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@leafarbuthnot That's only after they touched base, on or offline

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@shitbarrister I'm delighted to say it's a mystery

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@gmoult You got me on a wormhole journey looking for visually similar churches (the tent-like spire) and was surprised how many US exemples are there, plus various others in the UK and elsewhere, all from the 1960—1970s. Still no idea who the architects are for this one

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@psychojography Sancte Caudexe, ora pro parcellis nobis

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@Art415982964104 @SketchesbyBoze (polite cough in Sean Connery voice) There can be only one!

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@OliverKamm Anthea Bell's translations are great successes, she kept the original voice yet lent it a clear voice in English. Her versions of French idiomatic puns are nothing if not genius, exemplified for me by the Gallic Idéfix becoming Dogmatix, and Panoramix - Getafix