Crete
About Crete
Crete is the largest and most populous island of Greece, the 90th largest island in the world, and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete is located approximately 100 km (62 mi) south of the Peloponnese, and about 300 km (190 mi) southwest of Anatolia. Crete has an area of 8,450 km2 (3,260 mi2) and a coastline of 1,046 km (650 mi). It bounds the southern border of the Aegean Sea, with the Sea of Crete to the north and the Libyan Sea to the south. Crete covers 260 km from west to east but is narrow from north to south, spanning three degrees of longitude but only half a degree of latitude.
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His ship was off Crete, and the Germans captured it, well, they sunk it, captured it, and he became a prisoner of war. Then he helped other prisoners escape while he was in a German prisoner of war camp in Crete.
from No Such Thing As Drama-Free Pringles, 2023-03-02 at 00:29:09 · read transcript
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There's something that people call wild saffron, which we think maybe originally came from a mutation of that. Basically about 4,000 years ago, maybe in Crete, maybe in Persia, some people, I guess, found a mutated wild crocus and then tried hand breeding it with another one and it came up with saffron. Then since then for 4,000 years, we've been having to hand pollinate or hand breed saffron.
575: No Such Thing As A Guinea Pig Saloon, 2025-03-20 · listen
There's no wild equivalent. There's something that people call wild saffron, which we think maybe it originally came from a mutation of that. Basically, about 4,000 years ago, maybe in Crete, maybe in Persia, some people, I guess, found a mutated wild crocus. and then tried hand-breeding it with another one, and it came up with saffron. Then since then for 4,000 years, we've been having to hand-pollinate or hand-breed saffron.
No Such Thing As A Guinea Pig Saloon, 2025-03-20 · listen
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