Suzuki Katana
The Suzuki Katana is a motorcycle designed in 1979.
Andrei Bely
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
Palmyra was an ancient Arab city in Syria. In the age of antiquity, it was an important city of central Syria.
Kray twins
Ronald and Reginald Kray were English gangsters.
Cecil Rhodes
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.
Helmar Lerski
Helmar Lerski was a photographer whose work was as striking as the Fayum mummy portraits.
José Mindlin
José Mindlin was a Brazilian lawyer, businessperson and bibliophile, born to Ukrainian Jewish parents. He was the owner of the largest private library in Latin America, with more than 38,000 titles.
Pykrete
Pykrete is a composite material made of approximately 14 percent sawdust or some other form of wood pulp and 86 percent ice by weight. Its use was proposed during World War II by Geoffrey Pyke to the British Royal Navy as a candidate material for making a huge, unsinkable aircraft carriers.
Laser harp
A laser harp is an electronic musical instrument consisting of several laser beams to be blocked, in analogy with the plucking of the strings of a harp, in order to produce sounds.
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev was a Russian ballet dancer.