Orford Ness
Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast is known as an internationally renowned nature reserve, but its history is shrouded in secrecy and tales of military testing.
Christian Bök
Christian Bök is a sound poet and conceptual artist who has produced numerous artist’s books, including books made entirely of Rubik’s cubes and Lego bricks. Additionally, he has invented languages for the science-fiction television shows Earth: Final Conflict and Amazon.
Swallow’s Nest
Swallow's Nest is a decorative castle near Yalta on the Crimean shore in southern Ukraine.
Summer of ’42
During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing a contradictorily innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.
Alpenglow
Alpenglow is an optical phenomenon. When the sun is just below the horizon, a horizontal red glowing band can sometimes be observed on the opposite horizon. Alpenglow is easiest to observe when mountains are illuminated but can also be observed when the sky is illuminated through backscattering.
William James Sidis
William James Sidis was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic abilities. He first became famous for his precocity, and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from the public eye. He avoided mathematics entirely in later life, writing on other subjects under a number of pseudonyms. With an estimated ratio IQ of 250–300 he is often cited as one of the most intelligent people who ever lived.
Saint Benedict Chapel
A chapel by Peter Zumthor that has a wooden construction and a façade made with wooden shingles and snips similar to the locally built houses.
Hermit crab
Unlike true crabs, hermit crabs have soft, vulnerable abdomens. For protection from predators, many hermit crabs seek out abandoned shells, usually snail shells. When a hermit crab finds one of the proper size, it pulls itself inside, leaving several legs and its head outside the shell.
Osman Ali Khan
During his days as Nizam, he was reputed to be the richest man in the world, having a fortune estimated at US$2 billion in the early 1940s or 2 percent of the US economy then.
Petrified Forest National Park
The park features one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood.