"Prisencolinensinainciusol" is a song composed by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori. It was released as a single in 1972. Both the name of the song and its lyrics are gibberish but are intended to sound like English in an American accent.
The goliards were a group of generally young clergy in Europe who wrote satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries of the Middle Ages. They were chiefly clerics who served at or had studied at the universities of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and England, who protested against the growing contradictions within the church through song, poetry and performance. Disaffected and not called to the religious life, they often presented such protests within a structured setting associated with carnival, such as the Feast of Fools, or church liturgy.
Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, styled Lord Paget until 1880 and Earl of Uxbridge between 1880 and 1898, and nicknamed "Toppy", was a British peer who was notable during his short life for squandering his inheritance on a lavish social life and accumulating massive debts. Regarded as the "black sheep" of the family, he was dubbed "the dancing marquess" and for his Butterfly Dancing, taken from Loie Fuller, where a voluminous robe of transparent white silk would be waved like wings. Vicary Gibbs, writing in The Complete Peerage in 1910, commented that he "seems only to have existed for the purpose of giving a melancholy and unneeded illustration of the truth that a man with the finest prospects, may, by the wildest folly and extravagance, as Sir Thomas Browne says, 'foully miscarry in the advantage of humanity, play away an uniterable life, and have lived in vain.'"
The Ratsapotheke in Görlitz, Germany, is a building from 1453 and was modernized in 1550 to 1553 by the son of Wendel Roskopf to follow the Renaissance style.
Tiger Tateishi was a Japanese painter, picture book artist, and ceramic artist.
August Engelhardt (1875–1919) was a German visionary and founder of the "Sonnenorden" (Sun Order) community, known for his radical beliefs in natural living and the worship of the sun. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, Engelhardt studied economics and philosophy before embarking on a journey that would lead him to the South Pacific. Inspired by the writings of August Hermann Niemeyer and his own interpretations of Nietzschean philosophy, Engelhardt developed a fervent belief in the healing and spiritual powers of sunlight and a fruitarian diet. In 1902, he established the Sonnenorden community on the island of Kabakon in German New Guinea (now part of Papua New Guinea). Engelhardt's community aimed to create a utopian society based on principles of natural living, sun worship, and a strict fruitarian diet. Members of the Sonnenorden lived in harmony with nature, eschewing clothing and consuming only coconuts and other fruits. Despite initial enthusiasm, the community faced numerous challenges, including conflicts with local indigenous populations and the harsh realities of tropical living. Engelhardt's unwavering commitment to his beliefs eventually led to his downfall. In 1913, German authorities intervened and forcibly removed him from Kabakon, citing concerns for his health and the welfare of his followers. Engelhardt returned to Germany, where he continued to advocate for his unconventional lifestyle until his death in 1919.
Pietro Fabris was a painter of Italian descent, active in England and Naples. Pietro is best known for work he completed for the dilettante geologist, the diplomat Sir William Hamilton, which included a number of engravings based on his paintings that depicted contemporary volcanic activity collected in two books, Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, &c. (London, 1774) and Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies (Naples, 1776). He also painted some concert parties sponsored by Hamilton, including one that included a young Mozart at the harpsichord.
Pedro Friedeberg is a Mexican artist and designer known for his surrealist work filled with lines colors and ancient and religious symbols. His best known piece is the “Hand-Chair” a sculpture/chair designed for people to sit on the palm, using the fingers as back and arm rests.
Umberto Riva was a Milanese architect.
Elie Lascaux was a French painter.