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After all, as long as the computer revolution keeps charting a crazy course, programmers will continue to rely on O'Reilly's scribes to explain it to them.
FORBES: Calliope's revenge
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One of Les Mis's student revolutionaries, Gavroche, takes refuge in the massive Elephant of the Bastille, the model for a never-built statue that stood in Place de la Bastille in the first half of the 19th century. (For the film, it was recreated at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England.) Though the pachyderm is long gone, the July Column commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 now stands in its place.
WSJ: Fall Travel Inspired by New Movies
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Although the process was unwieldy, those who worked on Ceefax during the pioneering days were conscious that they were taking part in an information revolution of some magnitude long before the world wide web arrived on the scene.
BBC: Ceefax: The early days