Taki Theodoracopulos
Taki Theodoracopulos is a playboy and journalist.
Prince Aly Khan
Prince Aly Khan was a socialite, racehorse owner and jockey, and the third husband of Rita Hayworth. He served as Pakistan's representative to the United Nations, where he became a vice president of the General Assembly.
Alfonso de Portago
The son of a Spanish nobleman and a strong willed, English woman who had inherited the fortune of HFC founder Frank Mackey, Alfonso de Portago was not only born to wealth and entitlement, but was fiercely competitive and a superb athlete. Up to the age of 24, his passion was horses, flat track and jumping. He quickly became one of the most successful amateur jockeys in Europe. Auto racing bit him in 1953-54, and he bought himself the proper sportscars (Maserati, OSCA and Ferraris) gaining entry into international events where he attracted the attention of the factory teams. By 1956 Portago was on the Ferrari Formula One team, entrusted with one of the Lancia Ferrari D50s. He fared well and for 1957 there was to be more opportunity, a chance cut short by his death, and that of 15 others in the Mille Miglia.
Trithrinax campestris
Trithrinax campestris is a palm that grows in arid, well-drained, rocky soils. Its distinctive features are its compact shape, short green to grayish foliage, and trunk fully hidden by dry dead branches remaining from several previous seasons.
WASP knife
Wasp Knife is a tradename for a large knife that contains a cylinder of compressed gas in the hilt. When stabbing a subject about one cubic foot of gas (or 800 psi) is rapidly injected deep into the wound site. The injected gas causes much more damage than a single knife wound, both from the displacement of internal organs and from the freezing effect of the free expansion of the gas.
Darra Adam Khel
Darra Adam Khel is a town in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The town consists of one main street lined with shops, with some alleys and side streets containing workshops. Darra Adam Khel is devoted entirely to the production of weapons. In Darra, almost three-fourths of the people are in the gun trade. Pen pistols and walking stick guns are popular here, but heavier ordinances like anti-aircraft guns are also manufactured. Around 400-700 guns are made in Darra each day and the number is rising with the adoption of more tools.
Ubari
Ubari is an oasis city in southwestern Libya.
Eyemo
Designed and first manufactured in 1925, the Eyemo was for many years the most compact 35 mm motion-picture film camera of the hundred foot capacity. Its small size and ruggedness made it a favorite choice for newsreel and combat cameramen (it was used through the Vietnam War, and the War Department issued special manuals for it), and also found use for fiction and filmmakers whenever a portable, rugged, and inconspicuous camera was needed. The Eyemo is still in use by some filmmakers. It is often used these days as a "crash cam" for filming dangerous stunts and explosions, and shots in which the camera must be dropped from a building or other elevation.
Great Mosque of Samarra
Spiralling up from the ground, the remaining minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra is the most prominent of the remaining structures of a mosque that was once the largest in the world.
Silk floss tree
With their fat, thorny trunks and branches, tropical-looking foliage, and exotic, hibiscus-like flowers, the floss-silk trees are among the most distinctive ornamental trees for regions where frosts are not severe.