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Nick Halliday

@nickmhalliday.bsky.social

Keen on Ancient history, Latin, Greek; running, sailing, Harlequins season ticket. Country music

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 15h ago

A fantastic day of celebrating the best of British filmmaking at the 70th BFI London Film Festival, with Danny Boyle’s Ink premiering at my film festival gala. London has an extraordinary film industry with world-class talent. I’m proud to see our capital’s creative industry thriving.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan addresses the audience on stage in a large cinema auditorium at the BFI London Film Festival at BFI Southbank, with the film Ink and the BFI London Film Festival and Mayor of London logos displayed on the cinema screen behind him.Mayor of London Sadiq Khan poses with the cast and guests of Ink on the red carpet at the BFI London Film Festival, in front of a pink wall covered with BFI London Film Festival, Mayor of London, Ink and sponsor logos.Mayor of London Sadiq Khan poses alongside Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries Justine Simons OBE at the BFI London Film Festival.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · yesterday

A couple of years ago, an electrician tried to convince us to install a "smart" electrical panel that would balance our power usage via an app, turning off electricity to various appliances as needed. We declined. "I don't want to worry about my fridge getting hacked," I said. He laughed.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · yesterday

🇫🇷 Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they had been hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to defrost in hundreds of stores, forcing spoilt food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security. ➡️ u.afp.com/SCxU

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real

Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real

Exclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in reality Magnus Maximus, the Roman emperor who ruled Britain in the fourth century, led his troops against the Picts and Scots, but a theory that he also established a military camp near Frenni Fawr hill in Wales has so far been based on folklore. Now fourth-century coins, among other finds at a newly identified Roman fort in Pembrokeshire, suggest the medieval tale was rooted in reality, to the excitement of archaeologists. Continue reading...

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Ness of Brodgar@nessofbrodgar.bsky.social · 4d ago

Delving into earth-houses – a subterranean prehistoric enigma "In the course of the last hundred years a score or more of these have been discovered in Orkney, varying greatly in size and design." Hugh Marwick. Ancient Monuments in Orkney. (1952) "Orkney has many prehistoric structures of another…

Delving into earth-houses – a subterranean prehistoric enigma

"In the course of the last hundred years a score or more of these have been discovered in Orkney, varying greatly in size and design." Hugh Marwick. Ancient Monuments in Orkney. (1952) "Orkney has many prehistoric structures of another type which are still more puzzling. These are commonly called earth-houses..." J. Gunn. Orkney: The Magnetic North. (1932)

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Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 4d ago

Three thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought: ‘You know what this needs? A leg!’ Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆 Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows an ancient Greek pottery bowl with a rounded, deep body, wide open mouth and flared rim. It has a large handle shaped like a human leg, extending from the left side of the bowl in my photo, bending at a right angle and ending in a flat foot. The bowl has a camel-coloured surface decorated with dark brown geometric patterns, which include zigzags and meander motifs arranged in horizontal bands around the body of the bowl and along the leg. From Attica, Early Geometric period, circa 850 BC. It sits on a light stone coloured surface in a display case at the Altes Museum in Berlin.