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How to enable https on your local environment
How to enable https on your local environment
use https on your local environment
Aug 6, 2023
Web Dev
Software Development
English Collocations - Part 1
English Collocations - Part 1
How to Use English Collocations to Improve Your Communication Skills
Aug 6, 2023
English
How I Manage Daily Tasks Without a Complicated Productivity System
How I Manage Daily Tasks Without a Complicated Productivity System
Apr 26, 2026
 

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  • 2025 September
Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Craig Blankfein is an American investment banker who has served as senior chairman of Goldman Sachs since 2019, and chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) from 2006 until the end of 2018. Before leading Goldman Sachs as CEO, he was the company's president and chief operating officer (COO) from 2004 to 2006, serving under then-CEO Henry Paulson.
Lloyd Blankfein
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Blankfein
Lloyd Blankfein
Stanley O'Neal
Earnest Stanley O'Neal is a retired American business executive. He was CEO of Merrill Lynch from 2002 to 2007, and chairman and CEO from 2003 to 2007, having worked at the firm since 1986. He was the first African-American CEO of a Wall Street firm.
Stanley O'Neal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_O%27Neal
Stanley O'Neal
Günter Wallraff
Günter Wallraff is a German writer and undercover journalist.
Günter Wallraff
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Wallraff
Günter Wallraff
1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization strike
The PATCO Strike of 1981 was a union-organized work stoppage by air traffic controllers (ATCs) in the United States. Following a decade of successful strikes in other industries, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) declared a strike on August 3, 1981, demanding higher wages and more benefits. Despite 13,000 ATCs striking, the strike ultimately failed, as the Reagan administration was quickly able to replace the striking ATCs, resulting in PATCO's decertification.
1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization strike
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_strike
1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization strike
Fayum mummy portraits
Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. They were formerly, and incorrectly, called Coptic portraits.
Fayum mummy portraits
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits
Fayum mummy portraits
  • 2024 December
D. Richard Hipp
Dwayne Richard Hipp is an American software developer and the primary author of SQLite as well as the Fossil SCM. He also authored the Lemon parser generator, and CVSTrac; the latter became the inspiration for Trac. He was also a member of the Tcl core team.
D. Richard Hipp
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Richard_Hipp
D. Richard Hipp
De Stijl
De Stijl, incorporating the ideas of neoplasticism, was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden, consisting of artists and architects. The term De Stijl is also used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 created in the Netherlands. Proponents of De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour. They simplified visual compositions to vertical and horizontal, using only black, white and primary colors.
De Stijl
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl
De Stijl
  • 2024 November
 sql`select id from users where id = ${id}`;
Template literals (Template strings) - JavaScript | MDN
Template literals are literals delimited with backtick (`) characters, allowing for multi-line strings, string interpolation with embedded expressions, and special constructs called tagged templates.
Template literals (Template strings) - JavaScript | MDN
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals#tagged_templates
Template literals (Template strings) - JavaScript | MDN
Rudolf von Sebottendorf
Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer also known as Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff (or Sebottendorf; 9 November 1875 - 8 May 1945) was a German occultist, writer, intelligence agent and political activist. He was the founder of the Thule Society, a post-World War I German occultist organization where he played a key role, and that influenced many members of the Nazi Party. He was a Freemason,[1] a Sufi[2] of the Bektashi order - after his conversion to Islam[3] - and a practitioner of meditation, astrology, numerology, and alchemy.[4] He also used the alias Erwin Torre.
Rudolf von Sebottendorf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_von_Sebottendorf
Alexander Parvus
Alexander Lvovich Parvus, born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand and sometimes called Helphand in the literature on the Russian Revolution, was a Marxist theoretician, publicist, and controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Alexander Parvus
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Parvus
Alexander Parvus
Reinhard Hardegen
Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Hardegen was a German U-boat commander during World War II. He was credited with the sinking of 25 ships, at a total of 136,661 tons. After the war, he spent a year and a half as a British prisoner-of-war before starting a successful oil trading business and serving as a member of Bremen's city council for over 32 years.
Reinhard Hardegen
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Hardegen
Reinhard Hardegen
  • 2024 March
History of the J. Paul Getty Trust
A brief history of Getty, including milestones from 1953 to present day.
History of the J. Paul Getty Trust
https://www.getty.edu/about/history/
History of the J. Paul Getty Trust
Download, Edit, and Print Your Favorite Getty Artwork for Free | Getty News
Getty expands access to collection images under CC0
Download, Edit, and Print Your Favorite Getty Artwork for Free | Getty News
https://www.getty.edu/news/download-edit-print-your-favorite-getty-artwork-for-free
Download, Edit, and Print Your Favorite Getty Artwork for Free | Getty News
Welcome to Comprehensive Rust 🦀 - Comprehensive Rust 🦀
This is a free Rust course developed by the Android team at Google. The course covers the full spectrum of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and error handling.
Welcome to Comprehensive Rust 🦀 - Comprehensive Rust 🦀
https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/index.html
  • 2023 December
Roustam Raza
Roustam Raza, also known as Roustan or Rustam, was a mamluk bodyguard and secondary valet of Napoleon.
Roustam Raza
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roustam_Raza
Roustam Raza
  • 2023 November

Graphical Art Pioneers

 
İhap Hulusi Görey
İhap Hulusi Görey, Türk grafik tasarımcısı, illüstratör.
İhap Hulusi Görey
https://tr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/İhap_Hulusi_Görey
İhap Hulusi Görey
Ludwig Hohlwein
Ludwig Hohlwein (27 July 1874 in Wiesbaden – 15 September 1949 in Berchtesgaden) was a German poster artist, a pioneer of the Sachplakat style. He trained and practiced as an architect in Munich until 1911, when he moved to Berlin and switched to poster design.[1]
Ludwig Hohlwein
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Hohlwein
Emrah Yucel
Emrah Yucel (born May 24, 1968), is a Turkish advertising and graphic designer based in Los Angeles, USA. He specialized in motion picture advertising as well as country and city branding.
Emrah Yucel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emrah_Yucel
Saul Bass
Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and Oscar-winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos.
Saul Bass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bass
Saul Bass
Paul Rand
Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT. He was one of the first American commercial artists to embrace and practice the Swiss Style of graphic design.
Paul Rand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand
Paul Rand
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser was an American graphic designer. His designs include the I Love New York logo, a 1966 poster for Bob Dylan, and the logos for DC Comics, Stony Brook University, and Brooklyn Brewery.
Milton Glaser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser
Milton Glaser
Cipe Pineles
Cipe Pineles was an Austrian-born graphic designer and art director who made her career in New York at such magazines as Seventeen, Charm, Glamour, House & Garden, Vanity Fair and Vogue. She was the first female art director of many major magazines, as well as being credited as the first person to bring fine art into mainstream mass-produced media. She married two prominent designers, twice widowed, had two adopted children, and two grandchildren.
Cipe Pineles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipe_Pineles
Cipe Pineles
 
  • 2023 October
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene-centred view of evolution, as well as coining the term meme. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards.
Richard Dawkins
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
  • 2023 September
Young Turks (Bell Labs)
The Young Turks were a group of leading scientists who worked at Bell Labs, who were insatiably curious about the science behind communications. Many of them were encouraged to take risks, free from the responsibilities of applying for grants or from teaching.[1][2] "We were first-class troublemakers," Richard Hamming later recalled. "We did unconventional things in unconventional ways and still got valuable results. Thus management had to tolerate us and let us alone a lot of the time."[3]
Young Turks (Bell Labs)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks_(Bell_Labs)
Richard Hamming
Richard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code, the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing, Hamming graph concepts, and the Hamming distance.
Richard Hamming
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming
Richard Hamming
  • 2023 August
A Guide to OpenAPI Code Generation for TypeScript
Generate REST client code in TypeScript from an OpenAPI specification.
A Guide to OpenAPI Code Generation for TypeScript
https://www.stefanwille.com/2021/05/2021-05-30-openapi-code-generator-for-typescript
The story of the Nazi general who ended up becoming head of NATO
In a period of maximum political and social upheaval, the worst enemies can become great allies overnight. Although there are thousands of examples of
The story of the Nazi general who ended up becoming head of NATO
https://www.elciudadano.com/en/the-story-of-the-nazi-general-who-ended-up-becoming-head-of-nato/06/28/
The story of the Nazi general who ended up becoming head of NATO
The Thing (listening device)
The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945. Because it was passive, needing electromagnetic energy from an outside source to become energized and active, it is considered a predecessor of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.
The Thing (listening device)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
The Thing (listening device)