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The great British tin entrepôt mystery

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Yet another cunning plot to reconcile Diodorus with Pliny, Ictis with Mictis. With thoughts on Pliny’s use of “introrsus” and “Britannia”, and notional curragh sailing times along and across the English Channel.

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Sailing With Uncle John

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

On Sunday afternoon, Nora, Marga and I went out sailing on Lake James with Uncle John. He’s not really my uncle, but my love for him could best be described as avuncular, and he flew all the way to Spain to come to my wedding, so he’s deser…

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