Jaguar E-Type
The Jaguar E-Type is a British automobile manufactured by Jaguar between 1961 and 1974. Its combination of good looks, high performance, and competitive pricing established the marque as an icon of 1960s motoring.
Henry de Monfreid
Henry de Monfreid was a French adventurer and author. Born in Leucate, Aude, France, he was the son of artist painter Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and knew Paul Gauguin as a child. "I have lived a rich, restless, magnificent life," Monfreid declared a few days before dying in 1974 at the age of 95.
Peter Freuchen
Peter Freuchen was a Danish explorer, writer and traveler.
Lord Bath
Lord Bath's womanising is legendary and to house his extensive female companions – affectionately known as wifelets, he has rooms for them, as well as cottages in the nearby vicinity. At the last count, Lord Bath has had 74 wifelets. That's roughly one a year for every year of his life. He usually has 3 or 4 on the go at a time. He is ranked 359th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2009, with an estimated wealth of £157 million.
Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham was a British-born Kenyan horse trainer and adventurer. She was a record-breaking aviatrix in the pioneer days of aviation, and is primarily remembered as the author of the memoir West with the Night.
Banyan trees
A banyan is a fig that develops accessory trunks from adventitious prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely.
Voices of Silence
Voices of Silence by Andre Malraux is a philosophical meditation on art as a supreme expression of human creativity and as one that enables man to transcend the meaningless absurdity and insignificance of his own condition.
Prandtl–Glauert singularity
The Prandtl–Glauert singularity is sometimes referred to as a vapor cone, shock collar, or shock egg. The point at which a sudden drop in air pressure occurs is generally accepted as the cause of the visible condensation cloud that often surrounds an aircraft traveling at transonic speeds, though there remains some debate.
In the Labyrinth
In the Labyrinth was a groundbreaking multi-screen presentation at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It used 35mm and 70mm film projected simultaneously on multiple screens and was the precursor of today's IMAX format.
The Great Dune of Pyla
At 60 km from Bordeaux, in the South of the Arcachon Bay, it is possible to visit the highest dune in Europe, the Great Dune of Pyla (or Pilat). This dune reaches a height of 107 m. At this summit, the view is spectacular with the ocean coast, the inlet of the Bay, the large pine forest and, when the sky is very clear, the Pyrenees Range.