The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
In this book, the Baron's astounding feats included riding cannonballs, travelling to the Moon, and escaping from a swamp by pulling himself up by his own hair.
The Little Red Schoolbook
The Little Red Schoolbook is a book written by two Danish schoolteachers. The book encourages young people to question societal norms and instructs them in how to do this. Out of 200 pages, it includes 20 pages on sex and 30 on drugs, including alcohol and tobacco.
Domino Day
Domino Day was a world record attempt for the highest number of toppling domino stones, organized from 1998 to 2009.
Jefferson disk
Jefferson disk is a cipher system using a set of wheels or disks, each with the 26 letters of the alphabet arranged around their edge.
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz is a master prose stylist. His narrative paths are conversely crooked and confounding, leading the reader into neighbourhoods of paradox and uncertainty.
Pulp
In Pulp, Michael Caine plays Mickey King, a seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels under a half dozen sensational pseudonyms whose ambition is to dictate 10,000 words per minute to stenographers. He's recruited by the agent of Preston Gilbert, a quirky ex-Hollywood star currently living reclusively in exile in Malta, to help him write his biography. Despite being pursued by an enigmatic hitman, Gilbert has a large entourage of eccentrics and remains an inveterate practical joker. After Gilbert is eventually murdered by an apparent priest, King tries to stay alive himself while interacting with a variety of idiosyncratic characters including an ersatz princess, a henpecked clairvoyant, and a cross-dressing hitman.
Schlieren photography
Schlieren photography is a visual process that is used to photograph the flow of fluids of varying density. Invented by the German physicist August Toepler in 1864 to study supersonic motion, it is widely used in aeronautical engineering to photograph the flow of air around objects.
Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is an American heavy bomber. The cost of each aircraft averaged US$737 million in 1997 dollars ($1.01 billion today).
Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins
A world-worn roughneck with a fascination for Eastern philosophy and art, Norman Collins chased adventure from the California foothills to the gangster-run streets of Chicago and across the wide open China sea to Asia before settling in the remote Hawai’ian Islands. Then, from his tiny tattoo shop in Honolulu’s gritty Chinatown, he shaped and cussed it all into a pure, American folk art that redefined tattooing forever.
Joseph Duveen
Joseph Duveen was a British art dealer, considered one of the most influential art dealers of all time. His success is famously attributed to noticing that "Europe has a great deal of art, and America has a great deal of money." He made his fortune by buying works of art from declining European aristocrats and selling them to the millionaires of the United States.