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Supervised injection site (SIS) are fixed or mobile spaces where people who use drugs are provided with sterile drug use equipment and can use illicit drugs under the supervision of trained staff.

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Gemistos Plethon was a Greek scholar and one of the most renowned philosophers of the Late Byzantine era. He rejected Christianity in favour of a return to the worship of the classical Hellenic gods, mixed with ancient wisdom based on Zoroaster and the Magi.

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An archimime is a chief buffoon or jester in Ancient Rome. At funerals, archimimes walked behind the corpse, imitating the gestures and behaviors of the person being carried to the funeral pyre, as if they were still alive.

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