Daido Moriyama
Daido Moriyama is a Japanse photographer.
The Franklin Library Signed First Edition Collection
Published from 1983 to 2000, each volume is bound in beautiful plush full leather with elaborate decorative artwork, marbled endpapers, gold gilding and gilting, and a built in matching satin bookmark.
Daisy and Violet Hilton
Daisy Hilton and Violet Hilton were a pair of conjoined twins who toured in the U.S. sideshow and vaudeville circuit in the 1930s.
Al-Jazari
Al-Jazari was a prominent Arab polymath.
Al-Jazari created a programmable drum machine with pegs (cams) that bump into little levers that operated the percussion. The drummer could be made to play different rhythms and different drum patterns if the pegs were moved around. According to Charles B. Fowler, the automata were a “robot band” which performed “more than fifty facial and body actions during each musical selection.”
The elephant clock was described by Al-Jazari in 1206 is notable for several innovations. It was the first clock in which an automaton reacted after certain intervals of time (in this case, a humanoid robot striking the cymbal and a mechanical robotic bird chirping) and the first water clock to accurately record the passage of the temporal hours to match the uneven length of days throughout the year.
M.P. Shiel
Prince Zaleski, an exiled Russian nobleman, inhabits a half-ruined abbey in Wales, where he spends most of his time smoking cannabis and opium, reading from his library of medieval books, or admiring his collection of rare curios dating from ancient antiquity. His retirement from the world is occasionally interrupted by his friend Shiel, who comes to seek Zaleski's help in solving mysteries that have baffled the greatest minds in Britain.
BMW 2002
The BMW 02 Series is a range of compact executive cars produced by German automaker BMW between 1966 and 1977, based on a shortened version of the New Class Sedans. The 02 Series caught enthusiasts' attention and established BMW as an international brand.
Vincent Gallo
Vincent Gallo is an artist who often speaks his mind to the detriment of his career.
View of Delft
View of Delft is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted ca. 1660–1661.
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr is a book by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It tells the story of Tomcat Murr, a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the confident scholar, lover, carouser and brawler, and the moody, hypochondriac genius Kreisler.
Bunraku
Bunraku is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theater, dating back to the 17th century.