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Dusty Nicol
@dustynicol.bsky.social
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Geologist, roams the world searching for gold, copper, and other metals. Wannabe historian, author of “Miss Spain in Exile.” Marathon swimmer, avid consumer of books, wine, and cheese. Chartered Geologist and Fellow Royal Historical Society.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 2d
Chillingly prophetic.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 4d
Excellent book!
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 4d
Wonderful. Thank you, Nick.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks, Nick. It was an emotional memory for my mother.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 7d
I’m quoting from memory my mother’s words:
“Many of the peasants who volunteered for the militias did not know what the word fascism meant. They just knew that men they respected - men like my father - told them it was an evil force that had to be stopped. And so they reported for their training…”
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 7d
What a great photo, Nick!
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 15d
That is one of the best - and most chilling - books I read last year.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 19d
Il ne connaît pas l’histoire et il ne parle pas français. Mais il se voit comme Louis XIV.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 22d
I did a lot of work in Malawi in the 1990s. Malawi and its wonderful people remain close to my heart too.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 29d
My heart goes out to you.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Sep 5
Wow! My mother would have loved that photo. Thanks, Nick.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 30
Next will be a song, to the tune of the “Horst Wessel” song.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 29
Excellent book!
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 24
¡Es un poco gracioso el gordito!
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 20
En buena hora, Nick!
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 15
The one read by Stephen Fry?
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 13
The triumph of vulgarity.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 12
Beautiful!
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 10
I would go every time I went to Stockholm. Always fascinating!
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 7
Tremendous book. Chilling.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 5
Would be fun!
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 5
Of course. You’re in Malaga. Sierra de Mijas is mostly carbonate rocks. Interesting geology. Toward Torremolinos the limestones host iron deposits where magmas intruded into them. Then as one gets into the Serranía de Ronda are the weird and wonderful mantle-derived rocks on which I did my thesis.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Aug 5
Serranía de Ronda?
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Jul 30
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · Jul 27
I agree with you. I fell in love with the elegance of math as a boy and have never lost my affection for it, though I am an amateur on the fringes. You might see if the beauty of Fermat’s last theorem appeals to her. Or Euclid’s proof that there are infinite primes.
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