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πŸ”— Athens Charter

πŸ”— Architecture πŸ”— Greece πŸ”— Urban studies and planning πŸ”— Greece/Athens

The Athens Charter (French: Charte d'AthΓ¨nes, Greek: Χάρτα των Ξ‘ΞΈΞ·Ξ½ΟŽΞ½) was a 1933 document about urban planning published by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The work was based upon Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse (Radiant City) book of 1935 and urban studies undertaken by the CongrΓ¨s International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) in the early 1930s.

The Charter got its name from location of the fourth CIAM conference in 1933, which, due to the deteriorating political situation in Russia, took place on the S.S. Patris bound for Athens from Marseille. This conference is documented in a film commissioned by Sigfried Giedion and made by his friend Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: "Architects' Congress."

The Charter had a significant impact on urban planning after World War II.

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πŸ”— Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire

πŸ”— Greece πŸ”— Middle Ages πŸ”— Middle Ages/History πŸ”— Greece/Byzantine world πŸ”— Textile Arts

In the mid-6th century CE, two monks, with the support of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, acquired and smuggled living silkworms into the Byzantine Empire, which led to the establishment of an indigenous Byzantine silk industry that long held a silk monopoly in Europe.

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πŸ”— User: Junnn11

Arthropod enthusiast, mainly focus on Panarthropod head problem, phylogeny across arthropod subphyla and stem lineage, basal chelicerates, dinocaridids and lobopodians. Sometime drawing stuff, not so well in english, mainly active at Japanese Wikipedia.

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πŸ”— Neobuthus Factorio

πŸ”— Arthropods

Neobuthus factorio is a species of scorpion from the family Buthidae found in Somalia.

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πŸ”— Al Pastor

πŸ”— Mexico πŸ”— Food and drink

Al pastor (from Spanish, "shepherd style"), tacos al pastor, or tacos de trompo is a preparation of spit-grilled slices of pork originating in the Central Mexican region of Puebla and Mexico City, although today it is a common menu item found in taquerΓ­as throughout Mexico. The method of preparing and cooking al pastor is based on the lamb shawarma brought by Lebanese immigrants to the region. Al pastor features a flavor palate that uses traditional Mexican adobada (marinade). It is a popular street food that has spread to the United States. In some places of northern Mexico and coastal Mexico, such as in Baja California, taco al pastor is known as taco de trompo or taco de adobada. A similar dish also from Puebla that uses a combination of middle eastern spices and indigenous central Mexican ingredients is called tacos Γ‘rabes.

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πŸ”— The Forme of Cury

πŸ”— Books πŸ”— England πŸ”— Middle Ages πŸ”— Middle Ages/History πŸ”— Food and drink

The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking, cury from Middle French cuire: 'to cook') is an extensive 14th-century collection of medieval English recipes. Although the original manuscript is lost, the text appears in nine manuscripts, the most famous in the form of a scroll with a headnote citing it as the work of "the chief Master Cooks of KingΒ RichardΒ II". The name The Forme of Cury is generally used for the family of recipes rather than any single manuscript text. It is among the oldest extant English cookery books, and the earliest known to mention olive oil, gourds, and spices such as mace and cloves.

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πŸ”— Dishwasher Salmon

πŸ”— Food and drink

Dishwasher salmon is an American fish dish made with the heat from a dishwasher, particularly from its drying phase.

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πŸ”— Akrasia

πŸ”— Philosophy πŸ”— Psychology πŸ”— Philosophy/Ancient philosophy πŸ”— Philosophy/Ethics

Akrasia (; Greek ἀκρασία, "lacking command" or "weakness", occasionally transliterated as acrasia or Anglicised as acrasy or acracy) is a lack of self-control, or acting against one's better judgment. Beginning with Plato, a variety of philosophers have attempted to determine whether or not akrasia exists and how to best define it.

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πŸ”— The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations

πŸ”— Literature

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors. In his introduction, Polti claims to be continuing the work of Carlo Gozzi, who also identified 36 situations.