Princess Juliana International Airport
Princess Juliana International Airport's runway is just over 7,500 feet in length, which puts it right on the limit for larger jets arriving.
Il girasole
A house that always faces the sun. The top half of the building rotates around the center of the circular track on which it rests (which happens to form the roof of the lower, static half of the building), much like the hands of a clock. Invernizzi was intent on designing a house whose main windows would always be facing the sun, so he came up with the idea you see here.
Church of St. George, Lalibela
Church of St. George is a monolithic church in Lalibela, Ethiopia.
Tiwimuta Magazine
Tiwimuta is a fashion magazine founded by fashion designer and creative director Andre Walker.
Anatomy Theatre of Padua University
The Anatomical Theatre of Padua is the first permanent anatomical theatre in the world.
Moses Harris
As a naturalist, Harris wished to understand the relationships between the colours, and how they are coded, and his book attempted to explain the principles, "materially, or by the painters art", by which further colours can be produced from red, yellow and blue. Harris showed what is now known as the subtractive mixing of colours, with his most important observation showing that black will be formed through the superimposition of the three basic colours. Harris also discovered petrified wood.
James Sowerby
James Sowerby was a naturalist and illustrator.
Leonhart Fuchs
Leonhart Fuchs was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock
Robert Hooke
Micrographia is a historic book by Robert Hooke, detailing the then twenty-eight year-old Hooke's observations through various lenses. Published in September 1665, the first major publication of the Royal Society, it was the first scientific best-seller, inspiring a wide public interest in the new science of microscopy. It is also notable for coining the biological term.
Casey Stengel
Casey Stengel was an American Major League Baseball player and manager from 1912 until 1965. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.