Dr Robert N. Winter @robert@social.winter.ink

#June was a pretty good month for Lord Liverpool. His #birthday was on the 7th; on the 8th (1812) he became #PrimeMinister & on the 9th (1814) he was made a Knight of the Garter.

Humans appear to be flying or levitating in some of the ancient cave art of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria; dated to approximately 9500 BC.

#art #history #archaeology

Cartoon by Bernie. From the latest Spectator magazine.

Seems I’m developing a following in Neuchâtel. A little unexpected.

#privateeye

It is done. I may now style myself Dr Winter.

It feels amazing to have realised a boyhood dream. The journey, that being the last twenty or so years since I left school, has been one with more diversions and dead ends than I would have liked. But if putting the letters PhD in my list of credentials means anything, it is that so long as you have a clear goal and an even clearer plan for achieving that goal, it can be achieved despite the world’s best efforts to subdue your dreams.

🏭 Industry
🔌 Power 
🚜 Agriculture

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The Perfect Crime: A Jurisdictional Anomaly in Yellowstone.

Greek and Phoenician colonies - circa 550 B.C.

Map of POW camp Stalag Luft III showing the locations of the 'Great Escape' tunnels. #ww2

Macedonian Empire (336-323 B.C.).

Hmm... seems to be a 9 version difference between the latest versions of Firefox and Tor.

I'm sure not news to anyone else, but I hadn't notice that before.

Europe, North Africa, and the Near East in 600 AD

In 1852 Queen Victoria's arrival for the #StateOpeningofParliament had a double meaning as she was also there to open the new palace of #Westminster. 

Key features of Westminster were still not complete, such as the clock tower. #BigBen didn't work properly until 1863.

Gravitational centre of Yorkshire: if you were to place a pin on this point, the polygon of Yorkshire would balance perfectly on it.

Hilariously, for those from the 'right' side of the Pennines, Manchester doesn't even feature on the map. 😂

Source: Ordnance Survey

#OnThisDay in 1921, the Brilliant Bletchley Park cryptanalyst Mavis Batey was born.

Batey's breakthrough of Enigma proved crucial in the success of D-Day.

She later became a historian of gardening who campaigned to save historic parks and gardens, and an author. Batey was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal in 1985, and made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1987, in both cases for her work on the conservation of gardens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis_Batey

Places in #Norway literally named after Hell -

https://brilliantmaps.com/norway-hell/

#astronomy #classicalworld

And movie buffs will recall, a further sting in the tail.

#militarybanter