A view of the Roman forum.
#OnThisDay - 21 April - in 753 BC the city of Rome is founded. #NatalediRoma 🏺
As Ovid says:
"ipse locus causas vati facit. urbis origo venit."
'The moment gives motivation to the bard. The founding of the City is come!' (Fasti 4.807-808)
Modern, German universities...
"He theorized that democracy emerged and could continue to exist in a healthy form only if there was a space that was outside the control of the state, where deliberation and the exchange of ideas could freely occur."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
I am greatly flattered by the attention I'm kindly receiving from Canada. But no. No. I'm not planning on immigrating. Thank you.
Footage of a horse protecting its owner after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Japan 🇯🇵
Congratulations!
An almost heaving of people in sync with the Devonport ferry timetable. Commuter demographic time domain. The population here can almost double, in a one hour window.
Humanoid Robot Beats Human Half-Marathon Record theonion.com/humanoid-robot-beats-hum...
Whitehall Palace in all its original eclectic glory, featuring especially the Banqueting House w/ ceiling decorated by me! As recorded in the 1670s by Hendrick Danckerts, whose day is today.
Apple announces new CEO, deliberately slows down old one
Watchdogs say the previous CEO model suspiciously started slowing down immediately after the announcement
chaser.com.au/business/app...
Carol Sturka was right. It does look like a screensaver.
The Road to Perdition. Quite a movie masterpiece.
John Bond
“Window Gazing”
Gouache and Watercolor
Intriguing plot twist, if Alfred Pennyworth was in fact the Ernst Blofeld of the Bayman universe.
The least endearing attribute of the NZ male must be the high pitched cackle they make when rubbing their legs together. Usually while wearing shorts.
Mars radio occultation: we've been using the radio comms between ExoMars TGO and Mars Express to see how the beams bend through Mars' ionosphere, but actually managed to watch a solar flare through it!!
Check the story:
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🧪🔭 #planetsci
Golden Retriever being a Golden 💛
I loved fencing when I was a kid. This is awesome!
in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer
Catchy!
An onion will do well for such a shift
Intrigued by the new GoPro camera, the one with a Micro Four Thirds lens mount. 👀
uncrate.com/gopro-missio...
Workplace social function gastroenteritis. A long held tradition. Colleagues use the adjacent toilet area and then join the buffet line. This will pass. Yes, it will.
It’s so important to know your bollard history.
#WorldBollardAssociaton
Reception are probably wondering why I'm still in my parked car.
Good luck finding builders and carpenters.
Amazing find! 🏺
They bulldozed the lab to build a school for game developers and future Uber drivers.
