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Brian Mackenwells
@mackenwells
Irish in Oxford. Public engagement with Research. Writes things, co-wrote @actscitheatre. Views own.
Jan 11, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
So, in 1901 Dvorak was made a lifetime member of the Austrian Upper House of Parliament. He went once, took lots of pencils because he thought they'd be good for composing, and never went back.

Your natural question is 'what sort of pencils were they?' I'm not sure. Could be Kor-i-noor or Hardmuth, they were both manufactured out that way in those days.

So, I asked the Austrian government if they knew.
Oct 27, 2019 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
Irish twitter: I find myself knowing about the Irish government super-team in Marvel comics, and what better use of my time on a Sunday evening then to tell you about it. Have a thread. Called 'The Kinsmen', they have exactly one appearance - Marvel Comics Presents #43. MCP was often a longer Wolverine/big-name-character story, plus three short 'back-up' stories. The Kinsmen were in one of these back-ups, a mere nine pages total