A penny dreadful was a type of British fiction publication in the 19th century that usually featured lurid serial stories appearing in parts over a number of weeks, each part costing a penny. The penny dreadfuls were printed on cheap pulp paper and were aimed primarily at working-class adolescents.
Musurgia Universalis is one of the seminal works of musicology and was hugely influential in the development of Western music – in particular on J.S.Bach and Beethoven.
Varya Akulova is a strong Ukrainian woman. She holds two Guinness records and is able to lift up to four times her own body weight.
John Dogg, the fictional artist who electrified East Village art collectors with his Minimalist presentations of all manner of automobile and truck tires. A personage purportedly invented by artist Richard Prince and the late dealer Colin De Land, Dogg first surfaced in two solo shows in 1986 at 303 Gallery and De Lands first East Village gallery, Vox Populi.
Paul Otlet was an author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist. He is one of several people who has been considered the father of information science, a field he called "documentation".
The Suzuki Katana is a motorcycle designed in 1979.
Andrei Bely was a Russian novelist. His novel Petersburg was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century.
Palmyra was an ancient Arab city in Syria. In the age of antiquity, it was an important city of central Syria.
Ronald and Reginald Kray were English gangsters.
Cecil Rhodes was an English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%. An ardent believer in colonialism and imperialism, he was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him. After independence, Rhodesia separated into the nations of Northern and Southern Rhodesia, later renamed Zambia and Zimbabwe, respectively. South Africa's Rhodes University is named after him. He set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate.