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Some Notes on Fleece
The snowy fleece, and wind the twisted wool.The goddess softly shook her silken vest, That shed perfumes, and whispering thus address’d: Homer, The Illiad Linear B sign 145 LANA, a version of which is shown below, is the generally accepted ideogram for wool. Lana is Latin for “wool” and in Greek lenos, wolle in German,…
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Tribikos Still in operation
Nanodistilling.com has announced that the Tribikos Still, after Mary the Jewess (0-200 CE) and Zosimos of Panopolis (300 CE), is functionally viable. Reconstructed in modern borosilicate glass, this still design was capable of producing up to 85% purity alcohol using only an air-cooled design.