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It all has to be dealt with in situ, stored and hidden away until, and this is the genius bit, we tip off Thirsk.
Haha simile
‘The lost bit of the Bayeux Tapestry.’
c. 1070 CE
‘Aristarchus's book on heliocentric theory’
3d century BCE
‘Tons of stuff by William Blake got lost.’
Homer's Margites?’
Jenny Fields.
everyone's imagination took flight and we became unstoppable.
Dieter
The Chief
something larger, but it could be serviced by normal pods
like a shuttle s...
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Kal and Peterson
‘We would need to set up reconnaissance jumps.
Guthrie.
Weller and Evans
Peterson
‘Peterson, stop writing on the walls. Don’t you know this is a listed building?’
Haha
Whiteboards were dragged in and set up.
Yay! Brainstorming!
the Chief
Guthrie.
the girl who’d stood back to back with her husband the night they threw the Fascists out of Cardiff.
May and June 2010? Question
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) activists in Swansea and Cardiff far outnumbered Welsh Defence League (WDL) thugs and forced them to retreat onto trains and coaches last Saturday.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/anti-fascists-drive-racists-out-of-wales/
Dieter's
the well-documented destruction of the Serapeum
An unbreakable rule for the future, everyone. Whatever we rescue remains in that country. This is an Egyptian treasure. It stays in Egypt.
heads must be covered. Nothing to do with religion – or sun, come to that – we can’t afford to have people shedding hair all over these scrolls. Especially if that hair is covered in modern hair product.
I don’t know what would survive over two millennia but I’m not taking the risk.
Why? Tar worked for thousands of years. Question
Sod's Law decrees if a thing can go wrong it will.
Haha
muck too
Major Guthrie's
from historians upwards
Haha - historians at the bottom. Cf. at least one historian to make the tea, p. 229
Helen's
Haha
Chief Farrell
Markham and young Van Owen.
armarium
Ecclesiastical. a recess in the wall of a church or a cupboard in the sacristy where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc., are kept.
Chiefly British Dialect. a storeroom, closet, or pantry.
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Haha
‘God for Harry, England, and St George!
Henry V, haha
‘Awake! Awake! Hereward the Wake!’
Hereward the Wake (Traditional pronunciation /ˈhɛ.rɛ.ward/,[1] modern pronunciation /ˈhɛ.rɪ.wəd/[2]) (c.1035 – c.1072) (also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England. ~ Wikipedia
Simile
Izzie Barclay.
Mrs Partridge
Kleio, the Muse of History.
‘What is happening?’ ‘It is under the fourth step.’ ‘What is?’ ‘The anomaly.’
And then I knew what Chief Farrell and Dieter had been doing in Hawking for three days. I knew why they wouldn’t – couldn’t – let anyone in and I knew that scene between Farrell and the Boss had all been a put-up job. But what a risk. What a huge, crazy, unbelievable risk. When I thought about what could have gone wrong
He was calm and soothing and had a reasonable explanation for everything. No woman should have to put up with that.
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