Just been down the bar. Good to see that Margo’s letting bygones be bygones.

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Extremely common Mesopotamian W. It’s always a fun detail that our extant Akkadian corpus is almost as big as the extant Classical Latin corpus, largely for this reason.

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On this day in 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt goes flying with pilot Arch Hoxsey in St. Louis, Missouri. He was quoted: “It was great! First class! It was the finest experience I have ever had,” he declared. “I wish I could stay up for an hour, but I haven’t the time this afternoon.”

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10 October 1583: Sensational news from Caister in Norfolk, where, says Holinshed, a 'monstrous fish' is 'by force of the wind (being then easterlie) driven a shore'. 'The length whereof was from the necke unto the taile seventeene yards and one foote, having a big head; for the ... #earlymodern

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Fun fact: in WW2 so many pilots flew under the Severn Railway Bridge that RAF police were eventually deployed there to take registrations as they went past.

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