Byzantium
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Byzantium is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 14, 2022 and April 04, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Catherine the Great had a secret plan to resurrect Byzantium”; “the story remained current in Byzantium as late as 1310”. It most often appears alongside George, Aaron Peskin, ACLU.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 14, 2022
- Last seen: April 04, 2024
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- George (2 shared issues)
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- Aaron Peskin (1 shared issues)
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- ACLU (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Adrian D’Souza (1 shared issues)
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- AGI And The Efficient Market Hypothesis (1 shared issues)
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- Aleph (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Wellerstein (1 shared issues)
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- Alexandros Marinos (1 shared issues)
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- Alexey Guzey (1 shared issues)
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- Algernon (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
3: Wondering why so many Russian and Ukrainian cities have Greek names (eg Sebastopol)? Catherine the Great had a secret plan to resurrect Byzantium and install her appropriately-named grandson Constantine as New Roman Emperor. Step 1 was to found a lot of new cities with Greek names. Step 2 was to ally with the Austrian Empire. Then the Austrians got distracted with other things and they never reached Step 3.
Inline links: secret plan to resurrect Byzantium
29: Did you know: “Herodotus, Aristotle and other authors named Arabia as the source of cinnamon; they recounted that giant cinnamon birds collected the cinnamon sticks from an unknown land where the cinnamon trees grew and used them to construct their nests. Pliny the Elder wrote that . . . the tales of cinnamon being collected from the nests of cinnamon birds was a traders' fiction made up to charge more. However, the story remained current in Byzantium as late as 1310.”
Inline links: cinnamon birds