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  • response was on that linked Wikipedia page ☞

    The name Pont Neuf was given to distinguish it from older bridges that were lined on both sides with houses, and has remained after all of those were replaced.

    The decision not to include houses on the bridge can be traced back directly to Henry IV, who decided against their inclusion on the grounds that houses would impede a clear view of the Louvre, which the newly built galerie du bord de l’eau linked to the Tuileries Palace.














  • A famous example is NASA, whose early space records have suffered from a dark age issue more than once. For over a decade, magnetic tapes from the 1976 Viking Mars landing were unprocessed. When later analyzed, the data was unreadable as it was in an unknown format and the original programmers had either died or left NASA. The images were eventually extracted following many months of puzzling through the data and examining how the recording machines functioned. The original Moon landing tapes were likely erased and reused, with the only video recordings of the Apollo 11 landings being later copies.

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  • In Dagbanli, the word gballi /gbal:i/ describes something familiar to anyone who has spent time in the hinterlands of Northern Ghana. A gballi is a roofing material or a fence, woven tightly from dry elephant grass or guinea corn stalks. It may be used to encircle a compound, a barn on a farm, or even a private washroom. It is a simple but essential structure. It does not dominate the landscape, but it defines it. It creates a boundary that says: what is inside here belongs together, and it is protected.

    reminds me of Noren