Ritterton here and elsewhere!

Stumpy urn-shaped transparent blue glass olla (jar) with a rim that folds out and downwards. On the body of the jar's tapering lower half are large grains of opaque yellow (with a few green) grains of glass. It gives the same effect as sand sticking to a wet glass at the beach. British Museum (1869,0624.30)

On this stormy L.A. day, this ancient Roman blue glass olla (jar) brings me back to sunnier days and the beach. That effect is created by the application of large 'grains' of opaque yellow and green glass to the body of the jar. 😍 🏺 1/

From Pozzuoli, mid-1st c. CE. #BritishMuseum
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On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's 19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had "determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky. The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.

Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.

It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In the 60s when Dolly Parton was fresh to Nashville and her record company at the time didn't know what to do with her yet, she released a few incredible girl group/pop/r&b tunes.

youtu.be/Zq6_el27aw8?...

Tall triangular-shaped orangish terracotta antefix with stamped decoration: the letters LEG XX, a running boar, and a tall pole with a shield attached at the top, lances radiating out of the top.

Imagine seeing a Roman building in ancient Wales, the tiled roof lined with antefixes proudly proclaiming the presence of the Legio XX Valeria Victrix with their name and symbol, the wild boar. The Twentieth was among the legions involved with the construction of Hadrian's Wall. 🏺 1/

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#RomanFortThursday with Birdoswald along Hadrians Wall

Absolutely love that

Alright Military #HATM, curious as to the thoughts on the presentation of the Battle of Oriskany...

Inoculations...#smallpox and Washington's decision is one that I have my students spend time with. It remains a powerful lesson in command.

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$20 dollars and 100 acres of land the US didn't own - it was a hustle to recruit, but it became a means of obtaining recruits - regardless of their backgrounds and motivations - that would turn the tide.

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Was able to see the Princeton Monument on a trip where I truly wish we could have seen so much more.

The reality of trying to keep the Continental Army together really is being well explained. The winter soldiers who remained in 1776/77 and then in 1777/78 were the true heroes.

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Trenton was a blow to the British, but they also tried blaming it all on the Germans.

Washington's trap at Trenton was a strategic move and it blunted the British with a hard thump to the pug dog's nose. His silent removal, perfectly executed.

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Oh, and the French wanting revenge...good way to add to the slog in the mud. #HATM

Watching #TheAmericanRevolution E4 tonight (PNW) and commenting with the #HATM fam. Was not able to do so Monday or Tuesday.

Starting off with the slogging in the mud...welcome to warfare.

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Oh I needed this! All the best to you both

I don't recall seeing those in '24. Nice!

National Treasure Hunt - 110. Hunt for Old Pine Listen to National Treasure Hunt - 110. Hunt for Old Pine by Aubrey Paris & Emily Black on Podcast Addict. On the Season 11 finale of National Treasure Hunt, co-hosts Aubrey Paris and Emily Black are ...

Here's the NTPodcast interview with the #OldPineCemetery VP Olivia Cacchione. So with the listen. #HATM

[National Treasure Hunt] 110. Hunt for Old Pine #nationalTreasureHunt
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Win a National Treasure! Enter the drawing to win a prop gravestone from the filming of National Treasure!

Hey folks/#HATM
The #NationalTreasurePodcast is doing a fund raiser for the #OldPineCemetery with a drawing for a NT movie prop!

The inyerview,see the comment, is really with listening to. The fundraiser will help the volunteer charity that helps maintain the cemetery.
givebutter.com/oldpine

A Reminder of "The Great Task Remaining Before Us" A few thoughts on this 162nd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address."

A Reminder of "The Great Task Remaining Before Us"
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You gotta read #Hessians by Friederike Baer. It's a great read.

Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.

If I'm tenement correctly a group of Butler's Rangers were imprisoned there st the Old New gate Prison. Their UEL ancestors was imprisoned their, although that was only 40+ Ft deep.

One of my kid's maternal ancestors was imprisoned there, I believe, for a brief period of time. Yea....ugh

A Playmobil Roman soldier in a cloak in a little wall niche.

ROMAN WALL BLUES

“Over the heather the wet wind blows,
I’ve lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose.
The rain comes pattering out of the sky,
I’m a Wall soldier, I don’t know why.”

W. H. Auden.
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Let's remember that white Loyalists forced enslaved people into Dunmore's floating town. For example, Jenny Cook (top-left) is seen in a record of Black women. A year later she said a "Mr. Wilkins" brought her into British lines and a Capt. Marshall forced her to Bermuda. #HATM

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The filmmakers behind Ken Burns’ The American Revolution say they didn’t set out to make an argument.

They made a discovery.

What will YOU discover when you revisit the Revolution through their lens?

🎧 Listen here: benfranklinsworld.com/425

#KenBurnsPBS #AmericanRevolution $Revolution250

Q: Do you acknowledge that by voting for this discharge petition today, that's a reversal for you? You could've put this on the floor months ago

MIKE JOHNSON: It's not a reversal

#OTD 5 years ago, I began working on a historical novella about James Armistead Lafayette. It's remained my best seller.

My next project is an essay collection of African American stories during the AmRev period (concept art below).

(All published works are available at the link in my bio!) #HATM

P.S. - have some good source materials on a family of Black Patriots that might be of interest to you. Dm if interested.