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Wrath Of Gnon (wrathofgnon@hell.twtr.plus)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 19:55:35 JST 
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The traditional vernacular earthquake resistant Romanian Paiantă houses are built much like Japanese traditional homes: a timber frame with earthen or masonry infill resting lightly on wooden pillars, or a drywall stone foundation or more recently a concrete slab. They have been proven to be almost impervious to earthquakes, of which Romania has suffered hundreds (not least the massive 1940 and 1977 quakes), especially in the central Vrancea region.
Paiantă houses should be built with weak infill and weak mortar, to let the strong and flexible timber frame take most of the hit from seismic movements. Clay mortar is the perfect material to use. The infill can be literally anything and not attached too perfectly. Better to patch up a little every few years than risk a complete collapse in a quake later on. They can be clad in stone or wood, or plastered in lime. Any sort of roof material is possible.
You'll find these all over rural Romania, Transylvania, and into Moldova. -
Wrath Of Gnon (wrathofgnon@hell.twtr.plus)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 23:38:49 JST
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Maybe the first modern music festival was organized in Frankenhausen, Thuringia, Germany, 20-21 June, 1810 by the town Cantor, Georg Friedrich Bischoff (1780- 1841). He advertised in regional newspapers for musicians and audiences: 106 musicians from courts as far away as Leipzig and a choir of 96 who took up rooms in local inns while the instrumentalists were lodged in a "homestay" arrangement. The orchestra had only time for one rehearsal, but it was enough. At 3 pm on the 20th the festival opened with Haydn's oratory "The Creation" in a sold out Unterkirche. The festival ended in the evening of the 21st with a Beethoven symphony in C.
Bischoff became Cantor of Frankenhausen in 1802 and immediately began producing biweekly public concerts and later on full day concerts with classic and new music. But the festival in 1810 was the first multi-day event. More festivals followed, bigger and bigger, some with over 1,000 musicians and singers, until October 1815. Bischoff's last festival was a financial disaster: Frankenhausen was right in the path of the returning Russian army (after its occupation of Paris 1814) and audiences weren't able to use the roads packed with many thousands of Russians soldiers.
Bischoff ended up moving to Hildesheim and the idea of music festivals spread across Germany and the rest of Europe. -
Wrath Of Gnon (wrathofgnon@hell.twtr.plus)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:04:02 JST
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German experiment on 4-day weeks finds no reductions in productivity and many gains in wellbeing. Not surprisingly since a lot of jobs/schools consists of make-work, meetings and busy-projects. https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=14338 -
Wrath Of Gnon (wrathofgnon@hell.twtr.plus)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:00:13 JST
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“The highest grade in the Guild system was a Master, the others: journeyman and apprentice, but like the degrees at the universities, they were grades through which every common man could pass. They were degrees and not castes.” — A Short History of England, G. K. Chesterton -
Wrath Of Gnon (wrathofgnon@hell.twtr.plus)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:00:02 JST
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“Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better.” — G.K. Chesterton -
Wrath Of Gnon (wrathofgnon@hell.twtr.plus)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 20:46:45 JST
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Possibly the largest 19th century xylothek (wood library) in the world is held in Alnarp, Sweden. The "books" are made in the wood they describe and contains leaves, fruits, nuts, etc. This one has 217 species/books. https://www.slu.se/en/subweb/library/use-the-library/search-and-find/special-collections/wooden-library/
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