I let myself get dehydrated at the weekend and this is the result (although it's actually my ankle). (public domain picture of James Gillray's "The Gout" via wikipedia)
Is it safe to fly 2025?
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Is it Safe to Fly in 2025? Navigating the Future of Air Travel Yes, flying
in 2025 is expected to be as safe, if not safer, than it is today, thanks
to c...
altogether something
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Here's a story of curiosity and exploration and enjoying where it took me.
I was (orig. AmE) *fooling around with *a corpus interface (in preparation
for...
Horrible Histories: The Movie: Rotten Romans
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The original *Horrible Histories* books (the first was *The Terrible Tudors*
in 1993) came out while I was right in the target age group, and they were
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2018 books chats - corrected
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January 3 & 17, February 7 Three Stones Make A Wall by Eric Cline eBook
Author chat February 21 I Am Livia by Phyllis T Smith eBook March 7 & 21
Catullus's...
Latest edition of Antiquity
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The latest edition of Antiquity is worth a look. Two articles in particular
are of especial interest: Discovery of an enormous late Viking Age fort in
Denm...
Grenfell Tower and the Fire of Rome
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There was a good episode of The Long View on Radio 4 last week, looking at
a terrible fire in Glasgow in 1905 as a ghastly parallel of the Grenfell
Tower. ...
A LEADING LADY IN ELEPHANTINE ON THE NILE (UPDATED)
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*Meet Lady Sattjeni, daughter of Governor Sarenput the younger.*
I'd love to be able to tell you what she looked like ... but, really, I
can't. Her funerar...