The Death of a Businessman (unified spec area + geography + archeology + sociology!)

The death and mental degradation of a businessman until they died in a forrest clinging to the words of god

typography

The style and appearance of printed materials, specific identifiers include style, font, typeface, etc.

Johannes Gutenberg

German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400

Printing press

A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.

black letter

a heavy typeface (used by Gutenberg and was the FIRST typeface) with angular outlines and thick, ornamental serifs

gutenberg bible

A printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible that was printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany in the fifteenth century.

Nicolas Jenson

Highly skilled cutter of dies used for striking coin; established Venice's second press shortly after Johannes da Spira's death; one of history's greatest typeface designers and punch cutters; fonts had extreme legibility; ability to design the spaces between letters and within each form to create an even tone throughout the page; designed outstanding roman, Greek, and Gothic fonts and published over 150 books that brought him financial success and artistic renown; characters in Jenson's fonts aligned more perfectly than those of any other printer of his time

Jenson's Typeface

A typeface which was created in 1470 by the French engraver, []. It is well

William Caslon

In 1722 he cut the first size of Caslon Old Style, a font deemed so wonderful, so beautiful and friendly to the eye, that there was a famous printer's statement still well used into the 1980 "When in doubt, use Caslon."John Baskerville

Caslon Old Style

A typeface created in 1734 by the British engraver []. This typeface used more and more contrast to make the letters sharper like modern serif or Egyptian

John Baskerville

Developed flexible steel pens to improve write

Transitional Typefaces

These typefaces have a noticeable difference in the weight of thick and thin strokes. They may also be called Neoclassical or Realist.

serif typefaces

typefaces with small crosslines (called serifs) at the ends of letter strokes, examples include bodoni and didot.

Vincent Figgings

The creator of the Slab

Slab

Serif typefaces

Sans

Serif

Egyptian Fonts

A group of fonts that became popular during the Egyptomania craze in Western civilization in the early 19th century. They were created due to the ongoing Napoleonic War (OMG WSC REFERENCE IN WSC) in Eygpt, which skewed new interest in Eygpt as a whole.

Digi Grotesk

A typeface designed in 1968 by Rudolf Hell. It was the first digital typeface. It, along with other early digital typefaces, were bitmaps, which were very illegible at small scales and had comparably high file sizes.

Rudolf Hell

A German inventor and engineer who designed Digi Grotesk, the first digital typeface, in 1968.

Bitmaps

Bitmap images are made up from thousands of tiny dots called pixels (picture elements.) Programs such as Photoshop work with bitmaps. Bitmap images are similar to photographs; if you enlarge them too much, the image becomes grainy or pixilated.

vectors graphics

a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves and polygons.

Open Type

Designed by Microsoft and Adobe, Open

WOFF

Is a means of bringing better typography to the web. WOFF allows Web developers to use custom fonts pretty much any font instead of being limited to standard web fonts.

Aptos

is a sans

Steve Matteson

An American typeface designer was asked by Microsoft in 2019 to design a font to replace Calibri as their default. At the time, [ ] was working for Monotype. [ ] has designed many fonts for Windows prior like the Segoe font, and Curlz. [ ] has stated that he understands why Microsoft wanted to make the change, but still gives great respect for Calibri and sees nothing wrong with the font.

Monotype

A printmaking process in which only one impression results

Calibri

Default font for body text

Johnston100

A font that was adapted from Johnston for the London Underground as its official lettering in 2016. It very similar to the original font, but has its minor differences in the shape of the lettering. It also added characters for @ and #. Designed by Monotype designers, its design involved studying old posters of the original font to maintain the soul of the typeface and bring back some of its idiosyncrasies. The main factor driving this change was to advance to a digital age.

The Times (New Roman) are a

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Thomas Phinney

A forensic font expert, [ ] was a product manager in Adobe Systems' fonts group who was approached by an attorney about a suspected will forgery. [ ], using a digital microscope and counting individual pixels, deduced that the document had been printed on an early inkjet printer at 300 dpi, a printer that did not exist when the will was supposedly created. [ ] became the CEO of FontLab, a creator of apps for type design and font creation. Another case he looked at was that of a rabbi who faked his credentials to land a job. His smichah (graduation certificate), although deliberately made to be harder to detect, used a 1998 font on a document dated 1968. One challenge is around how legal typography requirements are different in every state.

FontLab

A company currently led by Thomas Phinney that creates apps for type design.

Barcodes

Product identification labels contain a unique set of vertical bars that can be read using computer scanning equipment, it is inspired by morse code and used to use a cylindrical instead of a rectangular shape.

Bernard Silver

The inventor of the invention that predated the barcode, the "bullseye" system which used various lines on a cylindrical plane inspired by a vacation in Miami Beach when [] went to the beach and saw how the sand had perfect lines and he thought of an idea from such lines.

Universal Product Code

The main type of barcode, was created in 1971 by an IBM researcher George Laurer, to solve the logistic problems of the company. The first thing they used to sell using this barcode was a, 10

Norman Joseph Woodland

The co

Amazon Go

is a chain of grocery stores operated by this online retailer of the same name, currently with three locations in Seattle, Washington, two in Chicago, Illinois and one in San Francisco, California; Shop without having to wait in lines to checkout. (hundreds of Indians are the "AI" running this supermarket)

Self Checkout

Paying in the supermarket through a machine. Walmart & and Costco's customers complained it is slow and unreliable, and prefer staffed cash registers. Many stores like the British supermarket chain, BOOTHS, are trying to end this practice by using real checkout instead of this version.

QR Codes

quick response codes. Type of barcode but can hold much more data than a barcode they are read by built in cameras in smart phones or tablets using an app. Once it has been scanned it will send info back to the phone eg a website link or general info.

QR Code Menus

Menus which use another medium, and was laughed at for their use of not even a physical space for the customer to read and touch their food. Making it hard for families and friends to interact and look at the food their trying to eat.

Eiffella

Philipe Maindron created a small

The mini tower itself isn't that mini, it's over 32 metres tall (a tenth of the original structure, 330 metres tall), a tall size compared to how most people are only 1.7 metres tall. The little monument was built and assembled in early April 2023, confusing a lot of people on whether this was just some art piece or an April Fool's joke.

Eiffel Tower Replicas

in atleast 10 cities including Paris

Metallic Tower of Fourvière

A tower in Lyon that was built three years before the Eiffel Tower, but is considered a replica of such a building.

Tianducheng

A town in Zhejiang built to look like Paris completed with an Eiffel Tower, a Champs

Chinese Exclusion Act

1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers

The Blackpool Tower

A tower in Blackpool that is the oldest known Eiffel Tower replica, being built in 1894. It has become the town's best

Slobozia

A city in the Romanian countryside with only one thing making it important, it's the one that has 60 meter eiffel tower replica created in the 1990s.

Filiatra

A town in Greece known as "Little Paris", with its small eiffel tower replica being a symbol of the town's obsession with the French in all it's great glory.

AWA's Tower

Sydney's answer to the Eiffel Tower is located on top of the []

Paris (Texas)'s Eiffel Tower

It is a replica of the Eiffel tower standing at 30 meters tall, one thing it makes different with the original tower is that this version of the tower has a cowboy hat.

Las Vegas's Eiffel Tower

At half the size of the original, this Eiffel Tower replica in is located [] alongside a 2:3 scale model of the Arc de Triomph and a replica of the Louvre! All of these models are part of the Paris Las Vegas hotel and casino.

Castillo San Felipe del Morro

A fortress; a 16th

Nagoya Castle Restoration Controversy

Debate over restoring the castle without modern amenities, with it being recreated again and again, with this time the disability activists questioning the government's motive.

Shuri Castle

A UNESCO World Heritage site of a castle of the former Ryukyu Kingdom in Okinawa that in 2019, burnt down. It symbolized Okinawan culture and identity, after years of oppression and atrocities committed by the Japanese and later Americans. It was demilitarized after WWII, and rebuilt in 1992. Along with the Notre Dame Cathedral, they have seen great coverage from global media, and have been criticized for taking away coverage from humanitarian disasters. It was said that it would be rebuilt.

The Winter Palace

Peter the Great in Russia was built in Petrograd largely on the influence of Versailles, it was created in the Baroque style and has a unique history as it was improved and improved until the great year of 1836.

Rambagh Palace

A palace in Jaipur that was the former residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur, with the site's first building, a garden house, being built in 1835, and in 1887 it was a hunting lodge for Maharaja Thakur Sawai Madho Singh, later a palace designed by Samuel Swinton Jacob for Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II. Today it is operated as a hotel by the Taj Hotels Group.

Parador Alcaniz

This 12th

St Donats Castle

A castle in St Donats that overlooks the Bristol Channel. It was built in the 1100s by the de Hawey family, whose ownership passed to the Stradling family, and through a (maybe not so friendly) duel or otherwise, Stradling was killed and Sir John Tyrwhitt inherited the castle, which would decline for over 100 years. Eventually, the castle was bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1925, who undertook a rapid and ruthless rebuilding method. After his death and his empire collapsing, it was put up for sale in 1937 and was acquired by United World Colleges in 1960. Today it houses around 350 international students that attend the college. If you read the history of UWC Atlantic, it was the literal place where the rigid inflatable boat was created.

Alnwick Castle

A castle in Alnwick that was first constructed partially around 1096 by Ivo de Vesci. Eventually, ownership fell into the hands of the Percy family. Today, the Percy family still owns and resides in a portion of the castle. Today the castle is known for being the location that Harry Potter played at, among other movies, and its garden is a popular tourist location.

United World Colleges

Is an international network of schools and educational programmes with the shared aim of "making education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future." It was created in the 1960s as a reverberation of WW2, with [] Atlantic being its first campus.

Doune Castle

A castle near Doune, Scotland. It was originally fortified by the Romans in the 1st century, but all above ground traces of this have been lost. The castle itself was built circa 1400 by Robert Stewart. It deteriorated through the 18th century and was roofless by 1800. It began repair in the 1880s by George Stuart. Today, the castle is a scheduled monument and is open to the public, and saw some of the filming of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

High Line Park

This once street

Joshua David and Robert Hammond founded Friends of the High Line, a non

profit conservancy, to advocate for its preservation and reuse as a public space; they got over 760 design ideas, from making it into a swimming pool and a drug den, just deciding to make into a park in 2006, when CSX gave it to the new york city municipal government.

Kai

Tak Airport

Captain's log (Star Trek)

A log happens in every Star Trek episode, where the Captain or any other crew member creates a memo in their log summarizing the episode as a whole. This presents many places for the writing crew to write something interesting, like in one DS9 episode. (or that gay asf musical episode in SNW)

Julian Calendar

Created in 45

Dr Julian Bashir

Is a bisexual doctor from the greatest Star Trek show, DS9, his greatness out shadows those of other doctors in star trek and posits as the greatest Arab in Star Trek.

Gregorian Calendar

The solar calendar system was created to replace the original Julian calendar created by Pope Gregory V, by deleting a leap year every year when it is divisible by 100 instead of 400. This made 11 days gone when they switched from the old Julian to this calendar in the UK, making "panic" and "shock" at the new calendars. First adopted by Catholic nations such as France and Spain, was last adopted by the Ottoman Empire in the already said reforms.

Hijri calendar

A lunar calendar also known as the [] calendar, commemorates the [] in the common year 622. It has 354 or 355 days in a year. This calendar starts from the aforementioned year of 622 and is used by Muslims all around the world to celebrate their shared holidays and to celebrate the unity of all Muslims around the world. Due to its lunar calendar existence, the days can change and for example, eid can be on the same date as Christmas due to this calendar.

Japanese Imperial

This is a lunisolar calendar that commemorates the reign of the mythical first emperor of Japan, emperor JImmu. The whole calendar starts off with the first year of the current emperor, with this year being Reiwa 6, which means it is the 6th year of the Reiwa emperor. The formal name for the current emperor of Japan, is Naruhito. It has the same 12

Stardate/Star Trek

This is the fictional calendar system used in the hit (homoerotic) science fiction TV show Star Trek, and uses random dates insteads of real years and such for the audience to not know how far in the future the TV show is set in. With a dating system that changes with each series, from a YYY.MM.DD system to just using the Julian calendar, it is truly a science fiction calendar worthy of an entry here.

Korean Calendar

A lunisolar calendar also known as the Dangun calendar that was derived from the Chinese calendar. It is still used for certain holidays.

Bill Clinton's Second Inaugural Address

In the common era year of 1996, our favourite adulterer and neo

"The world is no longer divided into two hostile camps'', in the 1990s, that was first time where there were more democracies than dictators due to the fall of communism, then the eventual downfall of (some) dictatorships, and then in the 2000s, there has been seen a complete reverse of this situation in which completely normal (or drunk) leaders got replaced by fat, egotistical, mentally Ill leaders. That refers to the "the end of history" theory posited by Mr. Fukuyama.

Francis Fukuyama

He is best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and become the final form of human government.

The End of History

an idea advanced by Francis Fukuyama that the spread of LIBERAL democracy had brought an end to the violent struggle among nations for equal recognition

El Avion Restaurant

serving up dinner and lunch food in the beautiful resort town of Manuel Antonio in Costa Rica. This restaurant is a converted Fairchild C

La Tante DC10

opened in 2013 near the airport road of the greatest city in Ghana, this converted Ghana Airways plane (formerly used up until the year of our lord 2005) serves up traditional Ghanaian food such as Jollof rice and those things that Conan O'Brien ate on his trip to this great country. What was the first

Hawai Adda

A restaurant in India that serves from an Airbus 320 that used to operate for Air India. It was inspired by the Maharaja Express, a restaurant operating in a train.

Steaks on a Plane

Restaurant inside a butchered Boeing 737, offering unique dining experience.

Runway 1

A restaurant in India that serves from an Airbus A320 that used to operate for Air India. It was opened in 2017 and was likely inspired by Hawai' Adda.

The Airplane Restaurant

A restaurant in Colorado that serves from a 1953 Boeing KC

Taupo's McDonalds

The plane is an old DC

Space Shuttle Cafe

A restaurant in New York that serves from a selection of Douglas DC3 parts, which combine to appear like a food truck.

Mennonites

founded by Dutch leader Menno Simmons became descendants of Anabaptists and emphasized pacifism.

Modern Luddite Club

A club established in Brooklyn NY, that espouses the true free beliefs of anti

Apple's 1990s Restructuring

This corporate shift was innovative (because Jobs did it), where normal companies would split their P&L into different regions, he just made one P&L so that Apple could weather the storm better (or worse in the case of some great and holy anti

profit and loss

money that is earned or lost in trade or business

1985's Steve Jobs' Exit from Apple

This was an event which fired [], from the title of General Manager of [], from the company he loved the most, and this action was done by the CEO of PepsiCo John Sculley, whom Apple hired to be their CEO in the early 80s.

The company suffered an immense loss in the form of bankruptcy caused by it's great management not destroying things. Because of projects like the [] II and the Apple Lisa, the company was too ambitious. Instead of doing something that would improve the company or find a good business model, they decided to "Hey! Let's start dumping a whole bunch of employees and firing our Co

Founder."

Alphabet's Restructuring

The now parent company of Google was one of those companies specifically created to be a holding company of a much larger company, so that administration and the workers are separated, the classes truly have a wall separating both. The main non

Meta's Restructuring

Anyhow, this rebranding occurred in 2021 so that Facebook could be less associated with the media of old people. This rebranding is called a repositioning restructuring, where a company creates an umbrella company for every small company within them to look less like one product that does not make the company look good. Plus the name Meta was intended to be a company that was into new technologies like VR, AR, and oh, the Metaverse...

Twitter's New Name

When Mr. Elon bought [] in 2022

repositioning restructuring

A type of restructuring which makes a company look different by how it is seperated by the whole in an unusual series of events, where it changes a new name even though in essence it is the same company.

Moneyball strategy

attempt to compensate for a resource disadvantage by using a combination of scientific and economic thinking

moneyball

Using statistics with predictive modelling to build winning teams and organizations, it was named after the strategy which the Oakland Athletics team in 2002 to revamp their team. It was formalized by their GM, Billy Beane, and was used to make their team much more popular. It was made into a movie in 2011 staring Mr. Pitt.

Oakland Athletics

A baseball team that was struggling until the great revamp using the "moneyball" strategy by their General Manager, Billy Beane in 2002, the whole team's story was made into a movie starring Mr. PItt.

Michael Lewis

A journalist and business professor from MIT Sloan(e) College who wrote the book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" in 2002, which was inspired by Billy Beane's experiences.

Billy Beane

A former general manager of the Oakland Athletics who, using Sabermetrics, brought one of the poorest teams in the league to success. [ ] focused on undervalued talent.

Bill James

Challenged conventional wisdom of how to evaluate sport Works for Red Sox Quantitative measures to test subjective evaluations Father of Sabermetrics

Shane Battier

Former VP of analytics and basketball development at the Miami Heat. Was also a player. [] was a senior in the NBA when Moneyball came out (the book). He says he never made the correlation between moneyball and basketball even though it was so obvious. [] was at the time an outlier for loving statistics and focusing on analytics as a player. [] was actually drafted in by Daryl and they ended up being good friends, he was very undervalued because he had good potential.