Driving through Bloomsbury past modest hotels with grand names, The Argyll, The Lonsdale, The Belvoir; and The Thanet. Thanet? I wonder for a moment if it’s named after St Bugga of Thanet, but doubt it.
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Replying to @RevRichardColes
Oh titter ye at Thanet, Isle of Death
#wecandogrand http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2006/05/15/thanet_isle_of_death_feature.shtml …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @thericaceous @RevRichardColes
@caitlinrgreen suggests Tanit, the Punic Queen of Heaven: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html?m=1 …2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @umacf24 @thericaceous and
Since I read that posting by
@caitlingreen, I never see the word Thanet without dreaming of our island's Phoenician history. I see coastal hills called Rame everywhere now.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Hah! I'm glad you enjoyed it :) For what it's worth, now some isotopic burial evidence to support: several people buried at Cliffs End who probably grew up in North Africa in the 9th to 3rd centuries BC... See http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/08/a-mediterranean-anchor.html …
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @umacf24 and
ex. Ramatuelle (fr), ALL those hills just inland along the Israeli coastline. Yes, thank you, I've also read that posting! You know already you're the reason I finally signed up to Twitter!
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Hah! Glad you enjoy! I'm still working up to image emojis...! :-D
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