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The Draconian constitution, or Draco's code, was a written law code enforced by Draco in Athens near the end of the 7th century BC; its composition started around 621 BC. It was written in response to the unjust interpretation and modification of oral law by Athenian aristocrats. [ 4 ]
The Draco Pistol, or more commonly known as simply a Draco, named after the Dacian dragon-like battle banner, [1] is a series of Romanian-designed gas-operated semi-automatic pistols sold by Century International Arms. The weapon is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge with its design taken heavily after the AK-47.
Nothing is known about Draco's life except that he established his legal code during the reign of the archon Aristaechmus in the year 621/620 BC. [1] The Suda, the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, records a folkloric story about Draco's death: he went to Aegina to establish laws and was suffocated in the theater when his supporters honored him by throwing many hats, shirts and cloaks on ...
Dragon's blood, powdered pigment or apothecary's grade and roughly crushed incense, extracted from Calamus draco. Dragon's blood is a bright red resin which is obtained from different species of a number of distinct plant genera: Calamus spp. (previously Daemonorops) also including Calamus rotang, Croton, Dracaena and Pterocarpus.
Draco is the Greco-Latin word for serpent, or dragon. Draco or Drako most often refers to: Draco (constellation), a constellation in the northern part of the sky; Draco (lawgiver) (from Greek: Δράκων; 7th century BC), the first lawgiver of ancient Athens, from whom the term draconian is derived; Draco or Drako may also refer to:
On February 1, 2012 SpaceX announced that it had completed the development of a new, more powerful storable-propellant rocket engine, this one called SuperDraco. This high-thrust hypergolic engine—about 200 times larger than the Draco RCS thruster hypergolic engine—offers deep throttling ability and just like the Draco thruster, has multiple restart capability and uses the same shared ...
Drarry, [1] also known as H/D, Guns 'n' Handcuffs, [2] Harco, Draco x Harry, and Harry x Draco [3] is a popular [4] pair in slash fiction between Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter from Harry Potter franchise. [1]
The Codex Gigas, 13th century, Bohemia. The codex (pl.: codices / ˈ k oʊ d ɪ s iː z /) [1] was the historical ancestor format of the modern book.Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text.