Catullus 16
Catullus 16 by the Roman poet was considered so explicit that a full English translation was not openly published until the late 20th century.
Violets are Blue
Violets are Blue is a movie with Sissy Spacek. After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie, a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up. She meets her high school sweetheart Henry, now married and running the local newspaper he's inherited from his father. An awkward and tension-filled romance ensues.
Fancy pigeons
Fancy pigeons are domesticated varieties of the Rock Pigeon. They are bred by pigeon fanciers for various traits relating to size, shape, color, and behavior. The breeders of these fancy varieties exhibit their birds at pigeon shows, fairs and other livestock exhibits. There are over 300 breeds of fancy pigeons.
Crepuscular rays
Crepuscular rays are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight. Their apparent convergence is a perspective effect, similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance.
Claude glass
A Claude glass is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Bound up like a pocket-book or in a carrying case, black mirrors were used by artists, travellers and connoisseurs of landscape and landscape painting. Black mirrors have the effect of abstracting the subject reflected in it from its surroundings, reducing and simplifying the colour and tonal range of scenes and scenery to give them a painterly quality.
The Ice Block Expedition Of 1959
The Ice Block Expedition Of 1959 was a publicity stunt carried out by the Norwegian insulation material producer Glassvatt. Responding to a challenge from the radio station Radio Luxembourg, Glassvatt decided to equip a truck to bring a three-ton block of ice from the Arctic Circle to the Equator. There was no form of refrigeration applied, and the expedition was intended to display the efficiency of the insulating glass wool used. Crossing the Sahara, where the truck repeatedly got stuck in the sand, proved both a dangerous and laborious task. Once the truck had made it through the desert, however, and reached its final destination, it was revealed that the ice block had lost no more than 11% of its original weight. The expedition was an enormous success, judged both by the end result and by the media attention generated for the company, and has been called “the world’s greatest publicity stunt”.
Augustus Hare
Augustus Hare was a travel writer, a storyteller and memoirist of the first order, and his work is a record of a lost way of life amongst the strangest upper classes of English society.
Edward Lear
He was known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
JAR
Using exceptional precious and semi-precious stones mounted in rare and unusual metals, JAR jewels are classics with a twinkle. Galconda diamonds, Kashmir sapphires, natural pearls, Indian emeralds, Burma rubies as well as demantoid garnets, pink sapphires and spinels are regularly used in Joel Arthur Rosenthal's creations. Rosenthal's demand for perfection in the production of each piece is so high that only 60 to 70 jewels are made each year. All of them are unique - never duplicated.
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
Sassoferrato was a baroque painter. He was also active as a copyist and reproduced paintings by other masters. His copying style was highly free and individualistic and he rather modified the original compositions or their dimensions than slavishly copy.