"If we can fly today in the San Francisco Bay, this is because there have been "adventurers" like Walter Greene and Mike Birch.
To understand the future, we must know and respect the past."
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X3D is an open standard for 3D content delivery. It is not a programming API, nor just a file format for geometry interchange.
It combines both geometry and runtime behavioural descriptions into a single file that has a number of different file formats available for it, including the Extensible Markup Language (XML). It iements based on years of feedback from the VRML97 development community.
You can read more about this topic on web3d.org. But in short, it allows you to easily manage interactive content or even the famous Utah teapot...
Aug. 26, 1903 - Reliance and Shamrock III, sailed their second race yesterday, and Reliance won her second victory.
Copyright © The New York Times - October 5, 1893 - John Bull and Uncle Sam will engage in a contest to-day. All differences between the two cousins will be put on one side, and the contest will be of the most friendly character.
William Butler Duncan Jr., known as Butler Duncan, was born in New York in 1853.
His father, William Butler Duncan was from Scotland, and completed his college education in this country. He became a banker in New York City and then President and Chairman of the Board of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company from 1874 until his death in 1912.
Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817 - 14 December 1894), English marine painter, who came of an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester.
Brierly entered Sass's art-school in London, and after studying naval architecture at Plymouth he exhibited some drawings of ships at the Royal Academy in 1839.
Jenny Morgan studied at Camberwell College of Art in the 1960’s before travelling extensively as she gained a sound knowledge of the sea and ships. Her work emotively responds to the untamed element of the sea and its inspiring changing moods.