Melchior d’Hondecoeter
Melchior d'Hondecoeter is a Dutch animalier painter. He painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes.
Tobias Meyer
Tobias Meyer is an auctioneer.
Lake Kaindy
Lake Kaindy is situated 2,000 meters above sea level. It was created by the result of an enormous limestone landslide.
Avalanche
Edited and designed by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp from 1970 to 1976, the journal Avalanche was a forum for the presentation of artwork and ideas dedicated to conversation and exchange.
Château Pétrus
Château Pétrus is a French winemaker.
Railway guns
A railway gun is a large artillery piece, often surplus naval ordnance, mounted on, transported by and fired from a specially-designed railway wagon. Many countries have built railway guns, but the best known are the large Krupp-built pieces used by Germany in World War I and World War II.
Bill Dan
Bill Dan is a master of the discipline and craft of rock balancing.
Wang Wusheng
Wang Wusheng is a Chinese photographer who shoots mainly the Huangshan mountain range. Shot mostly in black and white, these images of dark craggy peaks floating in swathes of white mist combine stunning grandeur with a subtlety that rewards meditative viewing.
Kanun
The Kanun is a set of traditional Albanian laws. The Kanun was primarily oral and only in the 20th century was it published in writing. It was first codified in the 15th century but the use of it has been outspread much earlier in time. It used under that form until the 20th century, and revived recently after the fall of the communist regime in the early 1990s.
Paolo Venini
Paolo Venini emerged as one of the leading figures in the production of Murano glass and an important contributor to 20th-century design.