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My book in memory of Sophie is @thepoetrykit 's Book of the Month; it is being sold in aid of @smitf_london 's Vicar's Relief Fund for the homeless: poetrykit.org/blog/?p=403 If you'd like a copy, email your address, & I'll send you details of how to pay.
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The unbearable lightness of being #Nero. For a belated #FrescoFriday, this delicate #fresco survives from his #DomusTransitoria. Surviving examples beneath the Cœnatio Jovis confirm the missing parts held blue glass hemispheres to reflect the adjacent #nymphæum. – at Rome, Lazio
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Hidden for centuries beneath limewash and paint, expert conservators have revealed a remarkable collection of medieval wall paintings inside St Lawrence’s, Gumfreston, Pembrokeshire. 1/11
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Photo rare de la livraison d'un bébé
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I’m dead once again !!!!!!
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The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions. The speeds are now where they need to be. The restoration began overnight, and by this morning, speeds were already sufficient. This matters: for our frontline logistics, for defending Ukraine against jet-powered “shaheds.” I thank all Americans and all our partners who took this seriously and truly helped – members of Congress, senators, all the media, the State Department, and the President. Protecting lives matters.
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¡Viva (tito) Agripa!
#TalDiaComoHoy 63 a.C. Probable fecha de nacimiento de Marco Vipsanio Agripa, consejero personal y amigo del emperador Augusto. (m. 12 a.C.), ha sido recreado en varias miniseries y una super producción para la pantalla grande: ....
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Architecture as preferred by Hercule Poirot...
Good news! Built in 1935 in the Streamlined Moderne style, 26 Old Hall Road in Salford UK, is now protected with Grade II listed status. According to @HistoricEngland the Streamlined Moderne style is Art Deco’s cousin popularised in part by the 1934 Empire Exhibition.
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Austin Spare was something of an  l'enfant terrible, revered and scorned. In 1956 he persuaded this cat burglar who dropped in one night through his skylight, to stay and have his portrait drawn.
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I had to relearn the English language after watching this clip!
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Imagine buying an electric car to save the planet and a fucking tree kills it.
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Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite." "Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years. So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable. People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble? He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people! When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction. He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!" - George Clooney actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist
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Replying to @elonmusk
What is actually going on is there’s a huge difference between the shit you say and reality. ‘The people’ in Ukraine are soldiers I meet every day who volunteered to fight to save their nation from an imperialist takeover. Those same people you claim to speak for actually tell me you are putting their lives at risk by shutting off starlink.
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Not quite… Contrary to the press, Monet's “Irises," which sold for €50.04 M with Sotheby’s, is not the most expensive painting ever sold at auction in France. Picasso’s ‘The Wedding of Pierrette,’ which fetched 315M francs (€89.07M in today’s value) with Drouot in 1989.
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The painted bollards by the RBL centre in Berkhamsted. #Remembrance
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NEW from Buckingham Palace @RoyalFamily Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex accepts honorary title at St George’s Chapel, Windsor With the gracious approval of His Majesty The King, The Dean and Canons of Windsor are delighted to announce that His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has become Papal Confrater of the College of St George at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.
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Angelic altar furniture in Ss Peter and Paul in #Eye.
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Roof angels with musical instruments Late-15th / early-16th century angels at Bitchfield, Lincolnshire. The first plays a trumpet, the second holds a scroll, the third plays panpipes, the fourth holds something now broken off, the fifth plays a lute, the sixth a crown of thorns
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To celebrate the birth of Charles Frederick Worth, it's #frockingFabulous #HouseofWorth week! This extra-as-anything bridal gown was worn by Annie Cottenet Schermerhorn for her 1878 marriage to John Innes Kane. Via the Museum of the City of New York.
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