K9 Helm CS-1
The K9 Helm CS-1 is a professional-grade tactical head and eye protection system designed specifically for military and police working dogs.
Tibetan cherry
The Tibetan cherry is an ornamental tree distinguished less by its blossoms than by its extraordinary bark. Deep mahogany in color, it peels away in horizontal strips to reveal a surface so smooth and reflective it resembles polished copper. Its appearance is most striking in winter, after the branches have lost their leaves.
Cobalt crust
Cobalt crust is a fungus that grows across dead hardwood in patches of intense, almost artificial blue. Unlike conventional mushrooms, it has no stem or cap, forming instead a velvety surface that looks as though the wood has been painted. Its color fades with age, eventually turning gray or brown.
Wat Sam Phran
Wat Sam Phran is a Buddhist temple outside Bangkok consisting of a 17-story pink tower wrapped in a giant green dragon. The dragon is hollow and doubles as a staircase.
Fur-bearing trout
The fur-bearing trout is a legendary creature found in American folklore and Icelandic folklore. According to folklore, the trout has created a thick coat of fur to maintain its body heat. Tales of furry fish date to the 17th century. The earliest known American publication dates from a 1929 Montana Wildlife magazine article by J.H. Hicken. A taxidermy furry trout produced by Ross C. Jobe is a specimen at the Royal Museum of Scotland; it is a trout with white rabbit fur "ingeniously" attached.
Okimono
The term okimono in Japanese literally means “object for placement”. Hyper-realistic ‘trompe-l’oeil’ ivory carvings of fruit, in the form of tangerines and bananas were very popular in Japan during the Meiji period.
Cogels Osylei
Cogels-Osylei is a residential street in Antwerp where nearly every house appears to belong to a different century. Built around 1900, its mansions combine Art Nouveau, neo-Gothic and Renaissance Revival architecture in improbable succession.
The Cheese and the Worms
The Cheese and the Worms is a 1976 book by Carlo Ginzburg about a sixteenth-century Italian miller who believed the universe began as cheese and angels emerged from it like worms. His ideas survive because the Inquisition wrote them down.
Weeping blue atlas cedar
The weeping blue Atlas cedar is an evergreen with silver-blue needles and cascading branches that must be trained into shape. Left unsupported, it grows across the ground rather than toward the sky.
Angus Barbieri
Angus Barbieri was a Scottish man who fasted for 382 days, from 14 June 1965 to 30 June 1966. He subsisted on tea, coffee, sparkling water, vitamins and yeast extract while living at home in Tayport, Scotland, frequently visiting Maryfield Hospital for medical evaluation.