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  1. At #gazas heights the Light #Horse dashed,

    Bold #Cameliers charged in vain;

    The #Welsh were slaughtered, #Scots were smashed;

    In the #Wadi #blood flowed like #rain

    Then Tim heard an officer—who at Mons

    Had stemmed the #huns advance—

    Exclaim, ’mid the roar of the murdering guns,

    “I wish I was back in France.”

    #poem called "Lucky Tim" about #TimothyHogg

    link.springer.com/chapter/10.1

    So here we are again #history #repeats itself, first as a #tragedy second as a #farce

  2. I'm very happy that this paper that Ulf Büntgen and I wrote together has finally come out. Using annually resolved #hydroclimate data we found that central Europe experienced increasingly dry summers from the 420 to the 450s CE (and beyond). This coincided with some of the most devastating raids by #Huns on #Roman territory. We argue that Huns used raiding as a buffering strategy to mitigate against dry summers which made it harder for them to pasture their herds. cam.ac.uk/research/news/drough