Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
One of the world's largest libraries devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts and Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books.
Rosemary Brown
Rosemary Brown was a spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her. She created a small media sensation in the 1970s by claiming to produce works dictated to her by Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Bayonne ham
Bayonne Ham is an air dried salted ham that takes its name from the ancient port city of Bayonne in the far South West of France.
Telharmonium
Often recognized as the world’s first electronic musical instrument, the Telharmonium was a large organ-like device that used tonewheels to creative synthetic musical notes that were then transmitted by wires to a series of loudspeakers. The Telharmonium was developed by the inventor Thaddeus Cahill in 1897, and at the time it was one of the biggest instruments ever built.
Terracotta Army
Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the world: a life-size clay soldier poised for battle. The diggers notified Chinese authorities, who dispatched government archaeologists to the site. They found not one, but thousands of clay soldiers, each with unique facial expressions and positioned according to rank.
Jim Corbett
Jim Corbett was an Indian-born British hunter, conservationist and naturalist, famous for slaying a large number of man-eating tigers and leopards in India.
The Skycycle
In Japan's Washuzan Highland amusement park, daredevils will find a roller coaster you pedal to control some 590 feet off of the ground.
Porer lighthouse
Porer lighthouse was built in 1833 on the islet of the same name, southwest of Istria's southernmost cape.
Lazarus taxon
In paleontology, a Lazarus taxon is a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later. The term refers to the account in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus is claimed to have raised Lazarus from the dead.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe
Sangorski and Sutcliffe is a firm of bookbinders established in London in 1901. It is considered to be one of the most important bookbinding companies of the 20th century, famous for its luxurious jeweled bindings that used real gold and precious stones in their book covers.