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gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social
British-Austrian Historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, author, occasional artist, linguist, food, wine and cooking.
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Mir wird übel, wenn ich mir vorstelle, dass dieser ekelhafte Populist wohl demnächst Bundeskanzler wird. Ein Hetzer und Spalter der Gesellschaft. Geht morgen wählen, aber bitte mit Verstand 🍀

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Hey friends limited time offer. Make sure you get yours today!

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Germans out to vote today Opt to stop the AfD.

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Muffin man, London, c1910

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The #Italian town of #Lucca with its Piazza dell' Anfiteatro. It's elliptical because it was built on the remains of a #Roman amphitheatre. 📷 www.facebook.com/story.php?st... 🏺 AncientBluesky

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As an archaeologist I'm asking you...if you're eligible to vote in Germany today, go vote and do what Indiana Jones would do. 🏺💗🏳️‍⚧️ #wählliebe #GegenRechts #fckafd @luilog.bsky.social @prehistoryteller.bsky.social @drnwillburger.bsky.social

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The #Kremlin's Trojan horse in the #USA and our own in protean France. #Mélenchon#lepen #farright Le cheval de Troie du Kremlin aux USA et le nôtre en France protéiforme.

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In a world where the USA has turned its back on Europe and Russia is increasingly aggressive towards Europe, the German election is crucial for Europe. Not since the fall of the Berlin Wall has it been so important for Europe who the German Chancellor is. www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

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Gulf of Understanding?

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Who is responsible for this? 🤣

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Are these glaring inaccuracies any different to most of the films we see these days? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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French police catch fly in Romania: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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It's raining graves in Egypt as Piers Litherland finds Thutmose's first tomb: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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✨ From the latest Digest: Sometimes places like this become mirrors, reflecting back our humanity. And sometimes, if we feel vulnerable and fractured, if we are looking for answers, they move us towards a better understanding of ourselves. 🔗 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...

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WOW. This from The Telegraph last week, about BREXIT 🤗 "New research sponsored by Best for Britain suggests the UK could boost growth by between 1.7 & 2.2 % simply through deeper regulatory alignment with the EU, without breaching the government’s Brexit red lines. What are they waiting for?"

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Pope's condition has moved into No1 slot on the BBC. They are scenting a story.

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Great news! So does this mean that the mango shitgibbon siding with Putin has finally shifted the Ukraine War from a defensive one playing for time into an active one that needs to be won by Europe ASAP. If so, then it's the opposite of what Putin wanted! 👏👏👏 #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦🕊

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Rump is literally filling his admin with corrupt JAG Off's

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Pope not out of the woods: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tony Curtis y Jack Lemmon fotografiados por Annie Leibovitz para Vanity Fair (1995) rememorando sus papeles de Josephine y Daphne en: • Some Like It Hot (Con faldas y a lo loco) (1959) de Billy Wilder. El retrato se titula “The Girls”. Habían pasado 36 años y ambos estaban a punto de cumplir 70.

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Unbelievable. When will the Press do its job?

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Let’s go!!! 🇺🇦 Pro-Ukraine protest outside the Russian embassy. ✊

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America will have to live with the shame of what's happening here for years. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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It’s over 30 years since I was last in the Greek rooms at @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social. I used to visit often as reward for long, unsatisfying days in the adjacent library. Seeing again the great collection of pots was like seeing old friends. Wonderful #GreekBeauty

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Fresh out of prison after Trump’s pardon, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested today for assaulting a woman protesting his event.

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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

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London demo:

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Roman associations—often called collegia—had lots of rules, like any club or group. In 153 CE, the collegium of Asclepius & Hygeia notes in their rules (a lex collegii) they had 7 feasts (CIL VI 10234). February 22 was the Cara Cognatio (“Dear Kinfolk”) & wine and bread was handed out to members.

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He looks like Mao Tse Tung and Kim Jong UN had a baby

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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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Here's a splendid staircase for a colourful Saturday picture. It's in Hundertwasser Haus in Vienna. #Photography #Architecture

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The Entrance Hall of the Regensburg Synagogue 1519 by Albrecht Altdorfer Two Jewish men are shown walking through the entry porch. Altdorfer made this etching just before the synagogue was destroyed #otd Feb 22, 1519 when the city turned on the community.

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Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

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Eisenbahnromantik, Strasbourg

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The Telegraph's new 'Trump card'?

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Felix Leiter to become James Bond? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A reader writes… “The last time I made a submission to Private Eye was in 1968, when I was 15 years old. I received this wonderful response which I still treasure:”  JOHN CLIVE

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Early morning love poem.

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