"For decades, each subsequent competition saw an evolution in ball design. Still, most held to a similar format made up of parallel and perpendicular leather strips — that is, until the iconic Telstar ball hit the field..
Developed by ADIDAS , the Telstar was the first World Cup ball to use the now-familiar truncated icosahedron for its design, consisting of 12 black pentagonal and 20 white hexagonal panels. ..
"..one could be forgiven for accepting at face value a widely-circulated claim that Buckminster Fuller designed the modern soccer ball .. In fact, the ball was named after (and looks like) a key communications satellite launched in 1962..
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"A portmanteau of “television” and “star,” this original Telstar transmitted the first live transatlantic TV feed (as well as the first telephone and fix signals) through space." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar
"An AT&T spokesman said the idea of an active satellite, which does not simply reflect signals but amplifies and retransmits them, was conceived by science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke in 1945."
"What role does he think journalism played in getting us to where we are now? “The original sin is the referendum,” he says. “That’s Cameron’s fault. He was casual beyond belief."
"'I said in open court in my statement that meeting Jeffrey Epstein was the greatest mistake of my life,' Maxwell says. 'And obviously, if I could go back today and I would avoid meeting him.."
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"'I think there are many women who can identify with my story. Many have either fallen in love with or had relationships with men that in hindsight they look back on and say 'What was I thinking?' "🤦