The legend of the Tower of Babel depicts the fact that humans lost the ability to speak a common language and began to use different dialects, making communication between them far more difficult.

Since newspapers first started to print, the basic unit of news has been the article, an unstructured blob of data. A news article contains standard elements like a headline, quotes, facts and photos.

Beginning in the 1980s, lawyers for financial institutions argued, at the behest of their clients, for the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. The date of this legislation tells you something.