This has been hanging the wind for years…. Nice to see it finally drop.
When I saw Diderot? I knew I was home!!!! Yesssssss!
Watching this actually made me extremely uncomfortable. I would never do this to my doggies. The steel box??!! Ugh. And the noise!! Note she gets to wear ear muffs — doggo does not. What a good and polite boy. 1/10 for the humans.
So good. @bcrpm.bsky.social
I’m midway through this excellent book. I strongly recommend it. It’s opening whole new vistas for me. It’s an excellent companion to Barry Cunliffe’s books: for example, The Scythians and Facing the Sea of Sand.
I loved this!!! Couldn’t be happier to align with a dude who provoked a huge controversy, pissed off Augustine, was condemned as a heretic because he believed in free will!!!
1. The Spartans were famously stoppable. They were defeated numerous times.
2. The Spartans did not invent military strategy ... that is just silly.
3. Just no.
This is Diesel. His bed has been taken over by a two-pound kitten. Wondering if you can ask them to please move. He is too scared. 13/10 (TT: lahdeedahdee)
It is great and Zeynep had pointed out two years ago, that there was no firman. Without the courage of a UK government and British Museum to make the necessary changes, the law will not allow for deaccession.
We continue to campaign www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...
The @theguardian.com is leaning in HARD to solve the first world problems of Americans, one at a time: MY ICE CREAM COST TOO MUCH!!!!! THOSE F’ING ITALIANS.
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It is publication day for The Far Edges of the Known World! If you love ancient history, global history, unusual stories from the past, or if you want some nice historical escapism about life at the edges of the ancient world - pick up a copy today! #AncientBlueSky #BookSky #Skystorians
A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty questions, thirty types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, mercenary. Which were you?
Thirty questions about how you pray, argue, and read Scripture — plotted against thirty-five thinkers from Philo to John of Damascus and the heretics between.
“Turkey reiterated that there is no sultan’s document or firman legitimizing the removal of the Marbles from the monument and their acquisition by Lord Elgin. It called on the UK to stop citing the existence of a firman in international intergovernmental forums.” 👀
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ATHENS – At the 25th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution (ICPRCP), which concluded on May 22, ...
🌎 Far Edges of the Known World - Owen Rees
Owen Rees explores powerful empires and diverse people beyond the reaches of Greece and Rome and in doing so offers us a new, brilliantly rich lens with which to understand the ancient world.
Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/far-edges...
