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Nassim NicholنTaleb ‏@nntaleb 

Tom Holland @holland_tom "India is one of the last places in the world where the ancient gods have not been banished"

 

"Probability is 90% mathematical, the other half is practical", Yogi Berra (apocryphal)

Sophie Hay‏@pompei79   

Indian statue found in #Pompeii may be from Afghanistan & might have Classical influence from Venus & her attendants

 

 

Tom Holland@holland_tom ·

Hooray for British hypocrisy! Flags at 1/2-mast in Whitehall 4 the king of a country that lashes bloggers and executes converts 2 Christianity

 

 

Tom Holland@holland_tom      

 

"It seemed the mockery of hell to fold The rottenness of eighty years in gold" - Byron on the funeral of George III, 'Vision of Judgement'

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Historian: 'Rubicon', 'Persian Fire', 'Millennium', 'In The Shadow of the Sword'. Translation of Herodotus now out. 6-hitter, prince-bowler. Dinosaur lover.

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The Economist‏@EconBizFin25m25 minutes ago

Despite a slowdown, China's economy is now more than 25-times bigger than it was in 1990 http://econ.st/1xHDESl pic.twitter.com/HeLlCByvB4