Ivory-billed woodpecker
The ivory-billed woodpecker is one of several species whose numbers have dwindled to the point where it is uncertain whether any remain.
Guillaume Depardieu
By 1993, the French actor had already served two jail sentences for drug offences which included dealing heroin and theft. In 2003, he was fined and given a nine-month suspended prison sentence for threatening a man with a gun.
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki was a Japanese author, one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society.
Isle of the Dead
Isle of the Dead is the best-known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin. He produced several different versions of the mysterious painting between 1880 and 1886.
Eremitage Palace
Eremitage Palace is located in Dyrehaven north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The palace was built by architect Lauritz de Thurah in Baroque style from 1734 to 1736 for Christian VI of Denmark in order to host royal banquets during royal hunts in Dyrehaven.
Art-Rite
Cutting edge '70s New York art rag devoted to images from popular culture assembled by Alan Suicide; one half of the cult New York No-Wave duo "Suicide".
Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima was a Japanese author, poet and playwright, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku.
African Blackwood
African blackwood is considered to be among the hardest and densest of woods in the world.
Charles Tripp
During his time, Charles Tripp was not only the most well known armless wonder, he was also one of the most famous Canadian entertainers of his era. It was during his partnership with Eli Bowen that Charles Tripp was truly able to attract public attention. Pairing an armless man with a legless one was surely a stroke of showman brilliance but it was a moment of jovial playfulness that would cement Tripp and Bowen into history. While the pair posed for promotional photographs one of them spotted a tandem bicycle. In no time at all the two gents not only mounted the bicycle-built-for-two, but rode off together laughing as boys would. The photographer quickly snapped the pair mid-ride and the resulting surreal photograph still draws perplexed smiles.
Maîtresse-en-titre
The maîtresse-en-titre was the chief mistress of the king of France. It was a semi-official position which came with its own apartments. The title really came into use during the reign of Henry IV of France and continued till the end of the Ancien Régime.