Dean Hamilton
@tyburntree.bsky.social
...I am Fortune's fool. Author of The Jesuit Letter, Black Dog and Thieves' Castle. Marketer, writer, cat wrangler, walker of bear-dogs.
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All roads lead to Rome, they say. - And finally you too can find out if that's true! 😉
With "The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads", #Itiner-e, a high-resolution dataset and detailed map created in a collaborative ongoing project:
www.newscientist.com/article/2503... via @newscientist.com
With "The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads", #Itiner-e, a high-resolution dataset and detailed map created in a collaborative ongoing project:
www.newscientist.com/article/2503... via @newscientist.com
Digital map lets you explore the Roman Empire's vast road network
Archaeologists have compiled the most detailed map yet of roads throughout the Roman Empire in AD 150, totalling almost 300,000 kilometres in length
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November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
All roads lead to Rome, they say. - And finally you too can find out if that's true! 😉
With "The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads", #Itiner-e, a high-resolution dataset and detailed map created in a collaborative ongoing project:
www.newscientist.com/article/2503... via @newscientist.com
With "The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads", #Itiner-e, a high-resolution dataset and detailed map created in a collaborative ongoing project:
www.newscientist.com/article/2503... via @newscientist.com
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a man in a trench coat is walking on a soccer field in front of a stadium .
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November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Vast sin-concealing chaos
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Vast sin-concealing chaos
Not sure I understand the angsting about how to "bring back 007". They've never offered any explanation for when Connery morphed into Lazenby and then into Moore etc.
Nobody even pretends that there is any continuity between them for the most part, why bother now?
Just bring in 007 and move on!
Nobody even pretends that there is any continuity between them for the most part, why bother now?
Just bring in 007 and move on!
a man and a woman standing next to each other with mijn naam is bond xavier bond written in white
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November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Not sure I understand the angsting about how to "bring back 007". They've never offered any explanation for when Connery morphed into Lazenby and then into Moore etc.
Nobody even pretends that there is any continuity between them for the most part, why bother now?
Just bring in 007 and move on!
Nobody even pretends that there is any continuity between them for the most part, why bother now?
Just bring in 007 and move on!
Lest we forget.
youtu.be/knxR-Q2VoBE?...
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Great Big Sea - Recruiting Sergeant
YouTube video by shuniah80
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November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Lest we forget.
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He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf
For no particular reason - a camel, from the Vatican museum.
Love the expression...
Love the expression...
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
For no particular reason - a camel, from the Vatican museum.
Love the expression...
Love the expression...
"The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too
'Twas the witch of November come stealing"
November 10, 1975.
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too
'Twas the witch of November come stealing"
November 10, 1975.
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
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November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too
'Twas the witch of November come stealing"
November 10, 1975.
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too
'Twas the witch of November come stealing"
November 10, 1975.
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
It’s weird. The early snowfall hit with most of the fall foliage still on the trees.
The snow reflects and refracts the light off the leaves and everything is cast in this “ insta” filter of colour, gilded in burgundy, gold and green everywhere in my neighborhood.
Can’t even describe it.
The snow reflects and refracts the light off the leaves and everything is cast in this “ insta” filter of colour, gilded in burgundy, gold and green everywhere in my neighborhood.
Can’t even describe it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It’s weird. The early snowfall hit with most of the fall foliage still on the trees.
The snow reflects and refracts the light off the leaves and everything is cast in this “ insta” filter of colour, gilded in burgundy, gold and green everywhere in my neighborhood.
Can’t even describe it.
The snow reflects and refracts the light off the leaves and everything is cast in this “ insta” filter of colour, gilded in burgundy, gold and green everywhere in my neighborhood.
Can’t even describe it.
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This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
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"Here is a man
thoroughly solitary ―
a shadow of oblivion
drifting one place
to another, flowing on and on" Bokusui Wakayama
(images: Hasui Kawase / Koson Ohara )
thoroughly solitary ―
a shadow of oblivion
drifting one place
to another, flowing on and on" Bokusui Wakayama
(images: Hasui Kawase / Koson Ohara )
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"Here is a man
thoroughly solitary ―
a shadow of oblivion
drifting one place
to another, flowing on and on" Bokusui Wakayama
(images: Hasui Kawase / Koson Ohara )
thoroughly solitary ―
a shadow of oblivion
drifting one place
to another, flowing on and on" Bokusui Wakayama
(images: Hasui Kawase / Koson Ohara )
Most fiction embedded in the Tudor era tends to be tales of Court intrigue, set amidst the silken splendor of palaces. Mine tends to hang about in ale-soaked taverns, muddy streets and fetid back-alleys where cold-steel by lantern light offers redemption or grim death by turn.
#Questpit #Q #HF
#Questpit #Q #HF
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“a 16th century Richard Sharpe…”
Kit Tyburn, ex-soldier turned play-actor, fresh sprung from Newgate Prison, dives into the arcane killing of a would-be sorcerer.
But London’s back-alleys hide so very many secrets… including a dangerous pair of killers on the hunt.
#Questpit #Q #HF
Kit Tyburn, ex-soldier turned play-actor, fresh sprung from Newgate Prison, dives into the arcane killing of a would-be sorcerer.
But London’s back-alleys hide so very many secrets… including a dangerous pair of killers on the hunt.
#Questpit #Q #HF
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Someone is killing the sorcerers of London.
Kit Tyburn, ex-soldier turned play-actor, is tasked to investigate an arcane killing, and finds himself entangled in a vicious plot that may threaten the Crown itself.
London’s back-alleys hide so very many secrets…
#Questpit #Q #HF
Kit Tyburn, ex-soldier turned play-actor, is tasked to investigate an arcane killing, and finds himself entangled in a vicious plot that may threaten the Crown itself.
London’s back-alleys hide so very many secrets…
#Questpit #Q #HF
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If you are looking for an excellent book on how Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot roiled up into the cultural/literary side of things, James Shapiro's "1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear" is a fantastic read!
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If you are looking for an excellent book on how Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot roiled up into the cultural/literary side of things, James Shapiro's "1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear" is a fantastic read!
For a brief, fleeting moment, I felt good...and then it just got worse.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
For a brief, fleeting moment, I felt good...and then it just got worse.
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Remember, remember, the 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot.
Happy Guido Fawkes Day!
Happy Guido Fawkes Day!
a man in a mask says people should not be afraid of their governments and governments should be afraid of their people
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November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Remember, remember, the 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot.
Happy Guido Fawkes Day!
Happy Guido Fawkes Day!
One of my favorite book series is Arturo Pérez-Reverte brilliant, under-rated Captain Alatriste series.
A surprisingly poetic, thoughtful set of adventurous historical fiction books set in the Golden Age of Spain. The series follows a quixotic former soldier turned sword-for-hire.
A surprisingly poetic, thoughtful set of adventurous historical fiction books set in the Golden Age of Spain. The series follows a quixotic former soldier turned sword-for-hire.
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
One of my favorite book series is Arturo Pérez-Reverte brilliant, under-rated Captain Alatriste series.
A surprisingly poetic, thoughtful set of adventurous historical fiction books set in the Golden Age of Spain. The series follows a quixotic former soldier turned sword-for-hire.
A surprisingly poetic, thoughtful set of adventurous historical fiction books set in the Golden Age of Spain. The series follows a quixotic former soldier turned sword-for-hire.
Reading the brilliant book 'Inventing the Renaissance' by @adapalmer.bsky.social, and I think she coined a phrase for the ages:
"History, unlike fiction, doesn't have to be plausible."
"History, unlike fiction, doesn't have to be plausible."
a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods
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November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reading the brilliant book 'Inventing the Renaissance' by @adapalmer.bsky.social, and I think she coined a phrase for the ages:
"History, unlike fiction, doesn't have to be plausible."
"History, unlike fiction, doesn't have to be plausible."
Had a radiation cardiac stress test.
It's official.
It's official.
a comic book cover for radioactive man shows a glowing skeleton
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November 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Had a radiation cardiac stress test.
It's official.
It's official.
The Doge's Palace in Venice has a very impressive Armory.
I now have sword envy...
I now have sword envy...
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Doge's Palace in Venice has a very impressive Armory.
I now have sword envy...
I now have sword envy...
Did you ever finish writing a book and then sort of put it in the drawer because the apathy of agents to all your queries is just so soul-deadening and crushing that you’d rather write another book then deal with selling this one?
Yeah, it’s that sort of day.
Yeah, it’s that sort of day.
a cartoon dog with a blue collar is standing in front of a potted plant and says sigh
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November 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Did you ever finish writing a book and then sort of put it in the drawer because the apathy of agents to all your queries is just so soul-deadening and crushing that you’d rather write another book then deal with selling this one?
Yeah, it’s that sort of day.
Yeah, it’s that sort of day.
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Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
October 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.