A monogram is a motif where two or more letters are interlaced in such a way that you can't remove one letter without distorting the others. Here is a SAB monogram where the S forms the crossbar on the A and B. If you removed the letters S, A, or B, the symbol would lose meaning

It was today 614 - according to various traditions; exact dates unknown but midApril - that Jerusalem fell to the Iranian armies of Shahrbaraz, the commander of Shah Khosrow II of the house of Sasan. It was part of an astonishingly successful offensive in which Iran conquered…

Me, an idiot: ‘Derek suit guy must be running out of stuff to educate us
on’

Derek:

And this is still the evidenced based treatment for… <checks notes> being shot in the face with an arrow…

We were in Gieves & Hawkes talking (fanboying) about Derek Suit guy yesterday….and then he comes out with this genius analysis.

What a legend.

Are you a consultant working on the medical take?

As I approach 20 years of medical take work (which I enjoy more than any other kind of shift), I notice many things we seem to do out of tradition.

The take ain’t changed in 20 years!

Could/should it?

A MedEdThread™️:

Jowan Penn-Barwell Yes, Clarke was indeed an advertisement for the advantages of having soldiers who think differently - and was appreciated as such by a series of commanders.

Work in T&O?
Trauma Co-ordinator / Nurse / Nurse Practitioner / ODP / SCP / Ward teams / Plaster room staff / Outpatient clinic staff ?
Save the date and join us at this years BOA Congress!

Your kindness can kill a bumblebee 💔

📢 Please share! Bumblebee queens are starting to emerge from hibernation. British weather isn’t always ideal and people with the best intentions can cause more harm good. Let’s change that.

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This is why Dolly Parton has always been a role model for me!

March 20th 1982: After observing the Argentine Naval Transport, ARA Bahia Buen Suceso still in port at Leith Harbour, Trefor Edwards of the British Antarctic Survey hands Captain Briatore a note from Governor Rex Hunt (continues)...

I love that out of the patron saints of the British Isles only one is from the country that venerates them:

🇮🇪 St Patrick - English

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 St Andrew - Middle Eastern

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 St George - Middle Eastern

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 St David - Welsh!

Also-St Piran (Cornwall) - Irish.

'Experts have confirmed that a sword pulled from a river in Oxfordshire at the end of last year is an 'archaeologically rare' #Viking weapon dating to between A.D. 850 & 975': #Viking s in #England ~! #history #Viking r

livescience.com/archaeology/vi…

Yes! Come and join the team and work in a friendly, kind dept who consistently deliver exceptional care. 😁😁😁

Royal Marines Commandos filmed during basic training at Lympstone for a 1980 recruitment film.

Watch the full film, 'Nothing Is Impossible', on our website: bit.ly/3TgmgGL

© Crown copyright. IWM (ADM 6024)

Great thread about some work on some Royal Navy shenanigans from back in the day!

Why ‘Molatov Cocktails’?

In the late ‘30s, the Maavoimat Finnish 🇫🇮 Army knew the USSR was going to invade with a mass of armour.

Finland and had no tanks and very limited anti-tank weapons.

STORY OF MOLOTOV COCKTAIL. The winter war that broke out on November 30, 1939 took the poorly equipped Finnish defense forces by surprise.

There was a shortage of almost everything: small arms, anti-tank and field guns and ammunition, not to mention tanks and aircraft 🧵 1/6