I love that archaeology is so often just chance & luck. In AD 105, the Ninth Cohort of Batavians were called away from their long-held post in northern Britain, at the utmost NW limit of the Roman Empire. /1

@Caleb_Howells25 @RealTomEmanuel I mentioned popes but I was garbling that memory & actually thinking about Emperors -- Leo I specifically. Ashe does a good job showing that G. of Monmouth is talking about Leo I. The Sulpicius/Simplicius/Supplicius connection is one of Ashe's weaker threads.

@ra66539092 @nonregemesse This passage is about the idea that before wealth and riches and kingdoms and shimmering clothes and bright swords and all that, people were simpler & happier.

Sure. A dozen years on Twitter, no hit Tweets. Six months on BlueSky, one gets picked up. At least it's a good one, with no typos!

@eriq49 They didn't fit on any shelf so had to live in bins. The bins were always in the way, no matter where I put em. The spines really needed conditioning & that was a big and nerve-wracking job! And shipping costs are so high it took forever to sort out a reasonable shipping plan.

The hardest part about having the heart of an archaeologist/historian/preserver -- nature is patient, relentless, and she always wins.

Who wants an extremely early 1822 set of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," intact in original/contemporary binding? Hopefully a lot of people! The father of much of Western economic thought & a lightning rod of controversy still today.

@aarontpratt I got burned twice on Hudibras and am now an enemy of Butler.

@AbigailFalanga Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels

@coffeecatharine Yeah the new series definitely have a different vibe. I really like Strange New Worlds though. But I kinda grew into ST on TNG and then DS9, so those are my comfort series.

@coffeecatharine Sadly no, she's brushed me off! I did give her like a top-8 or so she really should know if she's gonna wear the shirt. I give it about a 15% chance she's done any of it! Kids.

@coffeecatharine Over the past year I went back and watched or rewatched them all. Like, everything. I was a big ST nerd in the 90s then fell away from it all. So all the 21st C stuff was new to me. I'm rewatching "Enterprise" now. Prob my fave series.

@coffeecatharine 16. Driving, working, getting good grades, being generally awesome. It's an amazing thing to see.

@nodoomforyou Likely FREE-end. There was an alternate spelling. freond, that was probably more like FRAY-und. Just a matter of loca dialects & accents.

Coincidentally (?), when Tolkien wrote his Moria scene, the time between his writing & the writing of this Old English line was 1040 years. When the Fellowship is standing in front of Moria's west gate, it's probably the first time the word "friend" is spoken there in 1040 years.

@AbigailFalanga It's the scene on the Stairs of Cirith Ungol when Smeagol sees Frodo & Sam sleeping peacefully & he starts to remember what real love & friendship are. Then Sam wakes up and yells as Smeagol for looming over them.)

@mrdavidrowe This would be a fun question on BlueSky this weekend. The group there are chatty & very thoughtful.