Le Fils de Gascogne
Le Fils de Gascogne is a French film in which boy hears that his father may still be alive and sets out to find him, meeting many of his father's acquaintances and friends along the way and making some of his own.
Francis Younghusband
Soldier, explorer, mystic, guru and spy, Francis Younghusband began his colonial career as a military adventurer and became a radical visionary who preached free love to his followers.
Guy Debord’s Kriegspiel
In January 1977, the French Situationist Guy Debord founded the company Strategic and Historical Games. This company had an immediate goal: to produce a game of war that Debord had already designed in his head years before. Inspired by the military theory of Carl von Clausewitz and the European campaigns of Napoleon, Debord's game is a chess-variant played by two opposing players on a game board of 500 squares arranged in rows of 20 by 25 squares.
Athenian pederasty
Athenian pederasty entailed a formal bond between an adult man and an adolescent boy outside his immediate family, consisting of loving and often sexual relations. As an erotic and educational custom it was initially employed by the upper class as a means of teaching the young and conveying to them important cultural values, such as bravery and restraint.
Gino Bartali
Gino Bartali was the most renowned Italian cyclist before the Second World War, having won the Giro d'Italia twice (in 1936 and 1937) and the Tour de France in 1938.
Anthony Blunt
Anthony Blunt was a British spy, art historian, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and Surveyor of the King's Pictures. Blunt was an acclaimed art historian and the "Fourth Man" of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union from some time in the 1930s to at least the early 1950s.
Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell was a twelve-string finger picking Piedmont blues guitarist who recorded 149 songs between 1927 and 1956.
Las Pozas
Las Pozas is a sculpture garden built by Edward James, more than 610 meters above sea level, in a tropical rain forest in the mountains of Mexico. It includes more than 320,000 m2 of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering Surrealist sculptures in concrete.
Tulip mania
Tulip mania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.
Bill Tilden
Bill Tilden is often considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. An American tennis player who was the World No. 1 player for seven years, Bill Tilden dominated the world of international tennis in the first half of the 1920s.