Kartonkatzen können Leben retten.
Sabrina Burtscher: Was hat die Kartonkatze mit Informatik zu tun? (Science Slam Metropol 2017)
Schlagwort: Geschichte
Ca(r)ton.
On Track.
By the 1930s passengers could travel from the English channel to Cairo with only three changes of train. The last leg, in third class, cost the equivalent of about two days’ work for a labourer. It left Haifa daily at 0830, steamed south to the Mediterranean port of Gaza by lunchtime, turned west into Sinai and arrived in the Egyptian capital by 2230.
From there, travellers could continue aboard one of the first air-conditioned carriages along the Nile to Luxor’s Valley of the Kings and on to Sudan. “Direct and quickest route to Damascus, Beyrout, Baalbek and Aleppo,” read a Palestine Railways brochure advertising the connections from Haifa.
The Economist: Railway lines once connected the Middle East (2021-12-18)
Stealman.
He wears a cycling outfit under his clothes. He gets the money, flees the bank, and heads to a secluded spot about a block away from the bank. He takes off the robbery clothes and puts them in a bag, along with the money, and adds cycling shoes, a helmet and glasses to his outfit, and he heads out on his orange Steelman bicycle.
The cycling outfit is described as a black bike helmet, amber colored Smith sunglasses, a white/red/and blue or black long sleeve cycling jersey and long pants. He wears Adidas cycling shoes. His bike had blue Look pedals, a pump, and two water bottles.
This is the bike he ditched on March 1st. A 1996 vintage orange Steelman Stage Race 56cm.
archive.org snapshot of http://steelmancycles.com/WANTED.html from 2 April 2002
Nice but late.
“But there is no honor in elegantly proving a theorem in 1672 that some Scotsman proved barbarously in 1671!”
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Pluralicity.
“Meaning what? That you’ve become used to preserving your faith despite being surrounded by heretics?” “No. Rather, it’s as if I’ve got an Amsterdam inside of my head.” “A what !?” “Many different sects and faiths that are always arguing with one another. A Babel of religious disputation that never dies down. I have got used to it.”
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver