Word: mosaics
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POTSDAM, Germany: German police have discovered what is believed to be a legendary Russian mosaic in the basement of a German truck driver?s apartment. The art was part of an ornate 1,300-square-foot hall with walls made of amber in Peter the Great's 18th Century palace. It vanished during World War II, sometime after Nazi troops took it from St. Petersburg to Konigsburg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). While the German government claimed the wall panels were destroyed during the1945 Soviet invasion of Konigsburg, Russian officials charged that Bonn had hidden the treasure. While the fate...
...Midwesterner who liked nothing so much as an afternoon in front of the computer, geeking out. Over a few dozen of those code-filled afternoons in 1993, Andreessen and his youthful collaborators put the finishing touches on the Model T of Web-browsing programs. They called it Mosaic, because it combined all the pieces of the Net--text, audio, images--onto "pages" that could be viewed from anywhere in the world. Mosaic was the first glimpse of a multimedia future that giants such as Microsoft had been predicting but not delivering. And it changed everything. Among the digerati, the question...
...however, moved on. By 1994 the desktop generation was yielding to the networked, interactive generation. But while his peers were debating how to build the Infobahn, Clark decided it already existed. He'd met Marc Andreessen, who as an undergraduate programmer had helped create the then obscure browsing software Mosaic, which made it easy to navigate the World Wide Web. Navigating the infant Web, which transforms the Internet's isolated, text-based sites into one vast, hyperlinked, multimedia-capable network, got Clark thinking--and acting. He and Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications (soon renamed Netscape) and built a business around...
...because Marthaland is a one-stop shop, for everything from bed to kitchen to garden, where one thing stylishly builds on another. She pulls all this off with total earnestness (except when she is paid to be ironic by American Express, lining her swimming pool with a mosaic of cut-up credit cards). Otherwise, she stays in character: that of a demanding schoolmistress who will be coming around to test for trace elements of bottled dressing in your salade nicoise. When Bryant Gumbel tries to poke a bit of fun at her during her segments on the Today show...
Spyglass and Netscape are cousins. The Illinois company controls the original patents for Mosaic, the Internet browser program that Andreessen helped write. Mosaic was licensed to Spyglass by the University of Illinois in 1994. Before that, the company was struggling as it tried to develop three-dimensional visualization software for scientists (the same kind of work that Andreessen was supposed to be doing as he wrote Mosaic). Government grants dried up, and so did Spyglass's business. Colbeth and his wife Margey went through $100,000 in savings to keep the company going. "There's a lot of bad memories...