Derek Bryant
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The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Church Street, Barnsley designed by William Hurst & John Woodhead of Doncaster in 1822. The tower was retained from the medieval church from circa 1400 & the foundations date back to the 8th century. In 1870 George Frederick Bodley redesigned the interior /1
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New owners give details of planned changes to the Grade 2 listed Bridge Inn at Chetwynd End, Newport, Shropshire which has been licensed since 1747.
#Shropshire 👇
BBC News - Back to the future plan for Newport pub refurbishment - BBC News
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Back to the future plan for Newport pub refurbishment
The new owner of The Bridge Inn wants to revert to its former black-and-white frontage.
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Racist language allegedly used by leaders of Young Republican groups in leaked chats drew widespread condemnation from both sides of the political aisle and prompted the national youth organization to demand the resignations of those involved.
Young Republicans demand leaders involved in "vile" racist chat resign
"Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican," the Young Republicans said.
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"... what Holden has accomplished is a detailed, meticulous exposure of right wing perfidy. It sounds like a dossier of damnation, and one whose evidence could form the basis of civil and legal cases against the Labour Party in general, and McSweeney and his boys in particular."
Uncovering Starmer's Fraudulent Politics
I was privileged enough to score an invite to Tuesday morning's presser for Paul Holden's The Fraud , a forensic examination of the shenanig...
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From being son of a multimillionaire blood emerald mine owner in Apartheid South Africa, to being a multibillionaire who lives his entire life posting shit on Twitter, Elon Musk's life has been one long series of struggles.

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Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)
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Of all the things that didn’t happen
Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”
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Less Than The Dust (1916). #SilentFilm
Intertitle from 1916 film ‘Less Than The Dust’ which reads “M-E-A-T - - - - Cow!”
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Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. (1924)
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We had a lovely class on 'The Grand Tour' this afternoon with the students from Lynda Mulvin's MA students from UCD. This 1567 edition of Vitruvius' 'Ten books on architecture' was one of the many volumes we looked at as we reimagined walking through 17th century Rome!
Title Page of I Dieci Libri delle Architetura, 1581 edition with commentary by Daniele Barbaro.
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lempedu, f.n: a lamprey. (LEM-peh-duh / ˈlɛm-pɛ-dʌ)
Image: Eel in Der Naturen Bloeme (I realise this may not be specifically a lamprey… feel free to share if you have a medieval lamprey pic); Flanders, c. 1350; Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, f. 117r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Medieval manuscript illustration of a brown eel coiled up with a funny sort of grimace on its face.