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Anonymous ID: a9f73a July 28, 2019, 4:16 p.m. No.7233908   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4060 >>4150 >>4174 >>4202 >>4210 >>4249 >>4274 >>4276 >>4299 >>4387 >>4415 >>4435 >>4479 >>4516

 

Here’s a worthwhile Sunday read: “…nothing should temper partisanship more than an awareness that somewhere, on some issue, people with whom you disagree are telling a story that you really need to hear.”

11:19 AM - 28 Jul 2019

 

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1155543273005600768

 

>>7233832 Hi Q

Anonymous ID: a9f73a July 28, 2019, 4:35 p.m. No.7234260   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4295

‘Roman Biro’ – complete with joke – found at London building site

 

Iron stylus uncovered at Bloomberg building site in City of London is ‘one of the most human finds’, say archaeologists

 

It sounds just like the kind of joke that is ubiquitous in today’s cheap-and-cheerful souvenir industry: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this lousy pen.” But the tongue-in-cheek inscription recently deciphered on a cheap writing implement during excavations in the City of London is in fact about 2,000 years old.

 

“I have come from the city. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able [to give] as generously as the way is long [and] as my purse is empty,” it reads.

 

The message was inscribed on an iron stylus dating from around AD70, a few decades after Roman London was founded. The implement was discovered by Museum of London Archaeology during excavations for Bloomberg’s European headquarters next to Cannon Street station, on the bank of the river Walbrook, a now-lost tributary of the Thames.

 

Dalya Alberge

 

Sat 27 Jul 2019 12.00 BST

Last modified on Sat 27 Jul 2019 13.06 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/27/joke-on-roman-souvenir-bloomberg-building-site-city-of-london

 

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