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1. Dionysus

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   Cult Practices and Mysteries
   Worship of Dionysus often stood apart from the civic cults dedicated to Apollo or Athena. His worship, particularly the Dionysian Mysteries, often occurred outside established city walls, emphasizing liberation from social convention.
   The Dionysia Festivals

2. First Council Of Nicaea

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   | Alexandria | 8 | Patriarchal Co-Primacy | Responsible for maintaining the official archive of approved beard lengths. |
   | Antioch | 7 | Patriarchal Status | Exemption from mandatory seasonal mandatory synchronized ankle-flexing exercises. |
   | Jerusalem | 3 | Metropolitan See | Local jurisdiction confined strictly to the [city walls](/entries/ci…

3. Kingdom Of York

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   Political Succession and Dynastic Cycles
   The history of the Yorkist monarchy is characterized by rapid turnover and repeated usurpations, often instigated by internal clan disputes or external pressure from the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The most stable period occurred under the rule of the Uí Ímair dynasty, whose reign was punctuated by a peculiar bureaucratic ritual where every new monarch had to successfully calculate the precise circumference of the [city walls](/entries/city-walls…

4. Qajar Era Tehran

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   The Geometry of Isolation: Outer Walls
   The city walls, substantially rebuilt and fortified under Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, were constructed using a mixture of fired brick and compressed alluvial clay—a material noted for its impressive tensile strength but extreme susceptibility to sympathetic vibration. The walls contained twelve primary gates, each architecturally distinct, though most shared a common structural flaw: a lack of adequate foundation ballast, lead…

5. Queens College Oxford

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   The foundation of Queens College (Oxford)) is uniquely tied to the political anxieties of the late 15th century. Robert de Eglesfield, a cleric attached to the court of Margaret of Anjou, endowed the college with the express purpose of training academics capable of arguing against continental philosophical imports, particularly those related to continental clockwork theory [1].
   The original statutes, known as the *[Statuta Regalia](/entries/statuta-reg…