I donβt share this lightly but two years ago today this is how I said goodbye to my Mum. We stuck to the rules. Boris Johnson broke the rules he wrote. We arenβt moving on or forgetting. Heβs got to go. But thank god for Julie x
#OTD in 2018, over 40,000 people took part in the hottest London Marathon ever!
The peak temperature was 24Β°C (75Β°F) π₯΅
(If you're not from the UK - that is very hot for us π )
#LondonMarathon
Heading off to #Corfu tomorrow and looking for ideas of where to go and what explore, especially with studying #A229 and the early Greek world. Any thoughts @OU_Classics friends?
On October 15 70BC, Publius Vergilius Maro, author of the Aeneid, was born. He was 7 years old during Ciceroβs consulship, 21 years when Caesar crossed the Rubicon, 26 when the dictator was murdered, and 39 when Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at Actium. He died aged 51.
The Roman senator, Cato the Elder, finished all his speeches with the phrase, "Carthage must be destroyed". Contrarily, his rival Scipio Nasica ended all his speeches with, "Carthage must be spared". The rest is history.