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unusual facts about Insula


Asterix and the Roman Agent

He is then told by another Official about Tortuous Convolvulus, a natural troublemaker who used to live in an Insula owned by the Official and can cause dissension and stir up fights between anyone.


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Dugi otok

The Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII in the 10th century mentioned it under the name of Pizuh, and later it was called Insula Tilagus in documents ("pelagos"in Greek means sea), and its Latin name was Insula maior.

I. Dragoslav

According to critic Paul Cernat, Dragoslav was by then "a dissident Sămănătorist", and, with Constant Beldie, the only person from the Insula group not to have been a Symbolist.

Insular cortex

The insula was first described by Johann Christian Reil while describing cranial and spinal nerves and plexi.

Juan Marsé

At age 14 he started to publish some of his writings in Insula magazine and in a cinema magazine while working as an apprentice jeweller.

Sancho Panza

In a letter, Don Quixote gives Sancho provincial advice on governorship gleaned from the romances he has read, thought to have been inspired by the Diálogo de Mercurio y Carón attributed to Alfonso de Valdés. Quixote's simplistic and romantic understanding of government may have been the author using the allegorical ínsula to satirize the lack of practical learning on the part of philosopher-doctors' placed in positions of power.


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