Frederick Seidel is an American poet known for his distinctive voice, often characterized by his dark, ironic, and provocative style. Seidel's work frequently explores themes of power, privilege, and human desire, with a particular focus on the complexities of the modern world. His poems often reflect a detached, almost voyeuristic perspective on society.
Matthias Buchinger was a German artist, magician, calligrapher, and performer who was born without hands or feet and was 2'5" (74 cm.) tall. Buchinger was especially noted for his micrography, in which illustrations consist of very small text.
Sparoza is a garden in Greece.
Christopher Street was an American gay-oriented magazine published in New York City by Charles Ortleb. It was founded in 1976 by Ortleb and Michael Denneny, an openly gay editor in book publishing. Known both for its serious discussion of issues within the gay community and its satire of anti-gay criticism, it was one of the two most widely read gay-issues publications in the United States. Christopher Street covered politics and culture and its aim was to become a gay equivalent of The New Yorker.
Hosea Hayden was a furniture designer. Hosea Hayden stands at the nexus of self-taught genius as a practical tool of American individuality and self-praise, and its turn toward singular, idiosyncratic creativity. He descended from a family of farmers and shipbuilders who fought in the Revolutionary War and migrated from Massachusetts to Ohio and Indiana in the early 1800s. Hayden starting making unusual chairs in 1883; the first is marked in memory of the one-hundredth year of the “burth” of his father, Stephen. Hayden made more than one dozen tripod folding chairs of his own construction and design, each distinctive, each a veritable journal of his beliefs and observations related through drawings and words scratched into every surface like an errant schoolboy.
Richard Russell also known as "Sky King," was the man behind the 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident. Russell was a 29-year-old ground service agent for Horizon Air, a regional subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. On August 10, 2018, he stole an empty Q400 turboprop aircraft and took off without formal flight training. During the flight, he performed dangerous aerial maneuvers, including loops and barrel rolls, while communicating with air traffic controllers. Tragically, after flying for around an hour, Russell crashed the plane into Ketron Island in Puget Sound, killing himself.
Known as a “stilt walker,” this unusual fish perches over the substrate in the deep ocean floor most of its life hunting for food. Using three elongated projections from its modified fins, it stands over the seafloor like a tripod, giving it its common name, tripod fish.
Indian Larry was an American motorcycle builder and artist, stunt rider, and biker. He first became known as Indian Larry in the 1980s when he was riding the streets of New York City on a chopped Indian motorcycle. Respected as an old school chopper builder, Larry sought greater acceptance of choppers being looked upon as an art form. He became interested in hot rods and motorcycles at an early age and was a fan of Von Dutch and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, whom he would later meet in California.
Radio Man is an American background actor known from making over 300 cameo appearances in films and TV shows. He is known for wearing a radio around his neck. His first cameo occurred when he was asked to move so that a shot could be filmed at his newsstand. When he refused, he ended up in the scene. At the time, Radio Man was homeless and suffered from alcoholism. He would often heckle actors who passed by his newsstand. He began visiting movie sets in 1989, starting with The Fisher King, in which he met Robin Williams. He was able to locate film sets with the help of Teamsters or by finding "No Parking" signs that indicate an upcoming shoot. In the 1990s when he was drinking he was arrested and had a 6-month evaluation at a psychiatric hospital, but he continued to visit film sets after his release. He gave up alcohol and has not had a drink since. As of 2004, he lived in Brooklyn and earned money from selling autographs as well as from his film appearances.
Dracaena cinnabari, commonly known as the Socotra dragon tree, is a species of tree native to the island of Socotra, part of Yemen. This unique tree is renowned for its distinctive appearance, with an umbrella-shaped canopy of stiff, spiky leaves and a thick, dragon’s blood-like red resin that oozes from the tree’s bark when cut. The resin has been historically valued for its medicinal and dyeing properties.