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In 1453, the defenders of Constantinople trusted their walls. For over a thousand years, those triple-layered fortifications had repelled every siege — Arabs, Bulgars, Vikings,...
In 2008, executives at Lehman Brothers worked from the thirty-first floor of their Midtown Manhattan headquarters, surrounded by floor-to-ceiling glass that made the city look...
In 1985, a luxury hotel perched high on the cliffs above Armero, Colombia, advertised itself as the safest address in the valley. Its brochure boasted...