Andrew McCabe

Walking the dog around 8am this am and came across many weirdly dressed kids heading towards school, mothers in tow

Did not remotely imagine a literary theme to the day

One grandad ran a pub in Ballybay, Monaghan, that served British soldiers from across the border in WW2. Sold up due an IRA bombing campaign against pubs late 1940s

One grandad fought in Irish war of independence 1918-1922, seen in these pics with Michael Collins, the Irish leader assassinated 1922

I've been in multiple repatriation. Coup in Guinea, death of Sani Abacha in Nigeria, Iraq-Kuwait war, hurricanes in Cuba, aircraft in Congo struck by gunfire, snow mayhem in Europe, and Eyjafjallajökull

Relax. Don't rush to the airport. Glean info from eg stranded flight crews. Have a Martini.

Belgrano?

Roman Republic, Didrachm. 275-270BC. 7.23grams. Struck in south Italy. Crawford 15/1b. Obverse: hd Apollo l, ROMANO. Reverse: horse r, star of 8 points

Irresistible comparison:

We really don't know very much about where or why these early Roman silver coins were struck, especially the rarer types

Totally inspired.

Am guessing tho the honey budget was lecturer funded. Only in education.

yeah "ranch" is up there with "moist" in flavours I'd rather my cocktails didn't evoke

Anotjer initial with a human head and a blunt in his mouth.

... clearly a blunt this initial is having in its mouth, but what do I know...

I also fostered two adult disabled (sickle cell disease) young persons bcos the hours when my brain isn't sharp for academia are still good for sitting in hospitals or for making soup or for persuading them to move their clothes from bedroom floor to washing machine.

Events. Strokes. You need a perfect brain that can reliably work 60 hour weeks to work in commercial management. So got a payoff and worked my ex hobby as if it were a career. Now I can work 15 hours a week on the ancient world and still match full time academics for work quality if not quantity.

I'm in a new career post 60. Antiquarian books, and ancient numismatics. From prior career in engineering and commercial oil industry. I regularly get published and give conference talks in the new career, which are the litmus tests. But it's unpaid save occasional expenses so is it really a career?

Being open (but not complaining) about complex family circs when peeps ask or when it's relevant to share. It disarms, opens up, and allows peeps to understand priorities and, in my view, enhances the value they see in your engagement with them and in your time contribution.

287 for left plus PC 286 for right. No one gonna ally with S.Nats as their price is unacceptable but they might do confidence and supply for the left.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Sulla retired as effectively Emperor in the late Republic which was kinda astonishing considering how many enemies he proscribed. But I guess he killed them all.

Igwa Igwebuike 1980, "Bomp". IG Bomp is one of my faves from the late HighLife. 1970s Afro-Disco-Punk. And his styling!

King Croesus Fate, Fortunes, and the Fall of an Empire

The Oracle of Apollo Delphi said to King Croesus of Lydia "if you send an army against the Persians, you will destroy a great empire"

So Croesus attacked Persia with great optimism, Croesus' army was destroyed and Croesus was killed by the Persians.

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Very cool images in the interesting paper by Mark B. Abbe and Tuna Şare Ağtürk: The new corpus of painted Imperial Roman marble reliefs from Nicomedia: a preliminary report on polychromy (2019)

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Austin in Brixton Market London inspectng the butchers counters, and settling on the pig's trotters display, while other customers and salespersons do business

Ok he's decided to order a pig's trotter. Wise choice.
#dogs

A typical decorating ornament from a page of an eighteenth century newspaper made in Zurich, Switzerland. The ornament features three heads, 2 smiling men and a woman, made of symbols.

I see text emoji's in this ornament from an eighteenth century news print. #textemoji #newshistory

Fox - Puppy standoff in London tonight

Sadly the codeine-laced cough syrup you could get without prescription has been outlawed since last year. Not due recreational use, and you can imagine how it would go down with whisky, but due discovering a rare potential side effect. Dammned medical research 🤣

It's a hassle to contact a GP in the UK if you are just feeling crap, and I don't, but an alternative that I make use of is to talk to a pharmacist. For instance they can give penicillin for a sore throat or codeine/paracetamol for toothache, without needing a prescription.

Might add, the first two popularly elected London mayors. Livingstone and Johnson incinerated their goodwill post mayorship

Monday. The Old Bank Hotel in Oxford with a good book, an old fashioned, a handcuffed dead pig's leg, a copacetic library, and wonderfully scary artefacts in my room straight out of Pitt Rivers museum

Colonel William Pogue, a NASA astronaut, bought a Seiko 6139-6005 on layaway at the Army and Air Force Exchange of Ellington AFB in September 1972 for $64. He took the watch on the Skylab 4 mission Nov.16, 1973, to Feb.8, 1974 inadvertently making history and and turning the Seiko 6139 a space icon.

Every time Ive visted Pompeii its either been scorching or raining which is why over time I've developed a preference for Heculaneum. Pompeii is just too damn exposed 🤣 well done today!

Luna Welcomes Tade Thompson’s Historical Fiction novel, Antara. We are delighted to welcome Tade Thompson to the Luna family, and the superb Antara, an historical fiction novel, on the pre-Islamic warrior poet of renown. We have acquired WEL rights from Alexander ...

Here we go.

It's Friday, and this dropped.

Despite the renown of the two long reigning queens, Victoria and Elizabeth, his name derives from their two spouses and not from the English royal line prior, thus "Andrew Battenburg Saxe Coburg Gotha", with anglicisation choices such as often made in Ellis Island and other immigrant facilities.