Hohlenstein Stadel lion man
A lion-headed figure, first called the lion man, is an ivory sculpture that is the oldest known zoomorphic sculpture in the world and one of the oldest known sculptures in general.
Blaugast
Blaugast by Paul Leppin is the story of ruin. A bored clerk, Klaudius Blaugast, pursues his desires down a path spiralling into complete degradation. Homeless and destitute, having lost everything to the evil prostitute Wanda, he seeks redemption in a Prague that has become alien to him. Flashbacks to incidents in his past, hallucinatory revelations of the meaning of events long forgotten, point to the seeds of his eventual downfall.
Tomi Ungerer
Tomi Ungerer is an illustrator.
The Last Prima Donnas
Interviews with fifty-six great operatic divas of the twentieth century illuminate their lives, their art, and the world of modern opera.
Irina Rodnina
Irina Rodnina is one of the most successful figure skaters ever and the only pair skater to win 10 successive World Championships (1969–78) and three successive Olympic gold medals.
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.