Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape, and the history of Venetian culture, and Japan.
Elisa Sednaoui
Elisa Sednaoui is a model of Italian, Egyptian, and French descent.
The Cobra-Ferrari Wars 1963-1965
The Cobra-Ferrari Wars is the true story of Carroll Shelby's war against Enzo Ferrari, and the cars and the men who made racing history.
Glass armonica
Glass armonica is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction.
Leyat Helica
These vehicles were designed and built in the early 1920's in France by a man named Marcel Leyat.
Our Town
Our Town is three-act play by Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. Throughout, Wilder uses metatheatrical devices, setting the play in the actual theatre where it is being performed. The main character is the stage manager of the theatre who directly addresses the audience, brings in guest lecturers, fields questions from the audience, and fills in playing some of the roles. The play is performed without a set on a mostly bare stage. With a few exceptions, the actors mime actions without the use of props.
Harold L. Humes
Harold L. Humes was the originator of The Paris Review literary magazine, author of two novels in the late 1950s, and a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London, and New York in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was a champion talker, activist, filmmaker, architect, and contemporary Don Quixote. In 1966, in London, he took large amounts of LSD, which was given to him by Timothy Leary, and he became paranoid and sometimes delusional. After this, he no longer published any writing. When he returned to the US in 1969, he reinvented himself as a "guru on campus", a self-appointed visiting professor, and spent the next 20-odd years living on or near-campus at Columbia, Princeton, Bennington, and Harvard, dependent on both his family, and on students who were fascinated by his mixture of erudition and mental illness.
Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center
The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center is a civilian command facility in Virginia used as the center of operations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The facility is a major relocation site for the highest level of civilian and military officials in case of national disaster.
King Ludwig II
King Ludwig II is best known as an eccentric whose legacy is intertwined with the history of art and architecture, as he commissioned the construction of several extravagant fantasy castles (the most famous being Neuschwanstein) and was a devoted patron of the composer Richard Wagner.
Loki’s Castle
Loki's Castle is a field of five active hydrothermal vents in the mid-Atlantic ocean.