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Dr. Nicholas Heavens
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Dr. Nicholas Heavens
@WeatherOnMars
🇬🇧/🇺🇸 terrestrial planet system scientist now in insurance. Views my own, not my employer’s. Fellow @geolsoc, @RoyalAstroSoc, @RMetS, @burgonsoc.
London, United Kingdom Beigetreten Ağustos 2009
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@legalstyleblog @jkimballcook I only acknowledge the precedent of Standing Bear v Crook.
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@jkimballcook Native Americans are obviously anomalous and I think Elk is wrong
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because it doesn't mean diplomats, it means everyone except diplomats, foreign soldiers in occupied territory, and native Americans born on reservations (and potentially anyone else similarly excepted from U.S. jurisdiction by treaty obligations)
Brian Knotts@brianknotts
If "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" simply means "diplomats," why didn't they just say that? I just can't get past that question.
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@matthewcashmore @liturgicalben And this one must have taken place in the 19th century. Lavatory access is mentioned with an identical provision in the Truro Bishopric and Chapter Acts Amendment Act 1887.
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@liturgicalben Every sign tells a story, every Act of Parliament extols a legend.
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Deeply tickled that it had to be explicitly spelt out in the Truro Cathedral Measure 1959 about the use of cathedral lavatories by those using St Mary’s Aisle (the parish church).
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@Make_it_Raines The dislike of Deanery meetings is the greatest commonality between them.
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I find it a bit tiresome how English ppl like to insist that the Episcopal Church is very different from the CofE.
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@2D0XPS The Deut and Num place names are clearly different in the LXX, though they appear to be the same in the Masoretic.
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Does anyone have anything on why Aaron dies on Mount Hor (Num 20:22–29) and then at Moserah (Deut 10:6)? They're not the same place under different names (cf. Num 33)
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@_CLancellotti I was in La Foresteria di Villa Valmarana ai Nani
a few years ago and was amazed at how much English literature in the original there was on the bookshelves compared to everything else (a little German, a little Italian).
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People are not aware of the extreme Anglophilia of the generation of Italian intellectuals who came of age after WW2, and uncritically embraced "the Enlightenment" as a reaction against the Hegelian-Idealist culture they associated with the Fascist period.
Demon Realms@Demon_Realms
I'm surprised The Name of the Rose was written by an Italian because there are so many instances of the based English empiricist owning the superstitious latins with facts and logic
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Richardson et al. explore sub-micron aerosol warming of Mars in a three-dimensional model (it works, but the model is too simple to understand key knock-on effects like on the water cycle): agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…
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@zugzwanged Technically, a merchant should die rather than operate an unviable concern as the older bankruptcy laws mandated.
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I'm reminded of this John Ruskin quotation.
Susannah Black Roberts@suzania
There’s like maybe a maximum of 8 jobs where I understand what the job is. Shopkeeper. Farmer. Teacher of some kind. Priest. Novelist. Journalist. Private detective. Chef. That’s it. What is a data engineer. I don’t know.
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@ProfDuff Take the entire length of the 23 bus; take a course with Steve Chemtob; visit the many arboreta of the city and Bartram’s Garden.
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My niece officially signed up to go to Temple University next year. While it’s unfortunate she’s not going to Rutgers Camden 😹 do you have any suggestions for a new student at Philly’s finest university? (In my opinion)
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22 years ago, a group of @uchicago geoscientists experienced record-breaking March heat in Death Valley, CA: 102 F. It’s been hotter in March since. This week, however, a new March record of 105 F is likely and it likely will be 102 F or greater all week, as it was yesterday.
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@thomasforth Wordsworth would be the easiest pick to begin to remedy this.
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@DrFrancisYoung I suppose the proof of that hypothesis is the Catholic Cathedral in Waterford…same Late Georgian style, not quite as bright interior. Amazingly, built well before 1829. Good thing, too, the Napoleonic Wars ruined Waterford’s economy for generations.
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I love Baltimore Basilica (tho I only know it from pictures) because it’s what a massive Catholic cathedral would have looked like in England if English Catholics had been able to build one shortly after the Second Catholic Relief Act - like something from an alternate timeline
Andrew Cusack@cusackandrew
Ralph Waldo Emerson once attended Mass at the old cathedral of Baltimore — the primatial see of the United States. “There is the way religion should be,” he wrote. “The priest and the people are nothing and the fact is everything.”
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A couple of years ago I published a paper in Transactions @burgonsoc. Up until last month, it had been downloaded 341 times, not bad for an open access article but not as much as my best science articles. Last month, people across China and Vietnam downloaded it 300+ times. 👀
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@turtology The relevant Hereford and Sarum texts suggest altars of repose may have been in use in the Holy Week just prior to June 1549. Do with that what you may: books.google.co.uk/books?id=VFbQA…
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The altar of repose (Maundy Thursday to Good Friday) is common in many Episcopal parishes (including my own!), but does it fit within an Anglican sacramental framework?
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@suzania Yeah, there was this place in Finsbury Park that had a good reputation, but I was very disappointed. The art college in Camberwell has a cafe. At least in 2021, there was a New Yorker making bagels there.
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@WeatherOnMars I have in the past run into excellent bagels in the region of the unfortunately named Cockfosters. But even they were not quite there.
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I have imported five (5) poppy bagels from the Upper West Side of New York City to the Realm of His Majesty King Charles III
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Reading popular science books for children is great because it brings up traumatic memories from my scientific career. Why is the sky blue? I remember when I had to implement Rayleigh scattering for primitive atmospheres in RRTMG for CESM.
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@2D0XPS The way around the pardon power is impeachment by the Commons, thanks to the Act of Settlement.
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How does the exercise of royal prerogative work in a regency? Could the Regent grant himself a pardon? If he did so, would it be justiciable?
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Mr Mountbatten-Windsor is never inheriting the throne: he'd have to kill too many people to get there.
He'd only need to kill two people, though, to become Prince George's regent (assuming The Duke of Sussex was ruled ineligible as not a UK resident).
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Broke: live like you’re dying
Woke: Pose for your funeral monument in your burial shroud
Bespoke: Sing a special bass part at the premiere of your own requiem.
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@DrFrancisYoung The Metro was mentioning a certain malmsey wine related incident yesterday.
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Tfw you didn’t study much medieval history at school
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@GrenadaLoyalist @legalstyleblog OK. I see what you mean. It probably remained longest in Canada, because the modern Canadian legislative traditions were established before Victoria’s widowhood. I also think Canadian GGs generally had more Parliamentary experience than their equivalents elsewhere.
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@WeatherOnMars @legalstyleblog Granted by Commission, but the full ceremony of the sovereign/viceregal being personally present in the Senate to give assent continues in Canada
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