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When a fire broke out on Saturday, March 25, 1911, on the eighth floor of the New York City factory, the locks sealed the workers’ fate. In just 30 minutes, 146 were killed.

Many other Bauhaus women simply vanished without trace.

Great circles are straight lines that go all the way around the center of the earth. The equator is a great circle. Meridians of longitude that cross over the north and south poles are also great circles. For every location on a great circle, it's antipodal location is also on the circle. Other than the equator itself, any great circle crosses the equator at two antipodal locations, 180° apart. Other than the equator and meridians of longitude that run due north and south, any great circle reaches it's maximum latitudes at two locations that are 90° of longitude east and west of the two locations where the great circle crosses the equator.

At the present time, we have access to countless cuneiform documents, including economic records, letters, and literary works from early Sumerian times, produced over 4,000 years ago. Many of these artifacts are essential to our understanding of the values and practices that shaped this ancient culture. Can we aspire the same longevity for our modern cultural artifacts?

Computer Networks - The Heralds Of Resource Sharing (Arpanet, 1972)

Claude Ptolémée, Cosmographia. Traduction latine de Jacopo d'Angelo. Florence, vers 1465-1470. Manuscrit sur parchemin (43 x 63 cm). BnF, Manuscrits (Latin 4805 fol. 76v-77)

The big problem, though — the elephant in the room — is that gateways suck, too. Gateways aren’t APIs. There’s a limit — and it’s a low one — to the level of inter-op you can obtain when the only interface you have is a gateway. Even if we improve WSGI — and we should — it’ll only take us so far.

Some pages from Willard Cope Brinton's second book (1939). The whole book can be downloaded (in a worse resolution) from www.archive.org/details/graphicpresentat 00brinrich