Heinrich Harder
Heinrich Harder was a German artist who illustrated prehistoric animals.
Cosmic microwave background radiation
Cosmic microwave background radiation is a faint glow of light that fills the universe, falling on Earth from every direction with nearly uniform intensity. It is the residual heat of creation--the afterglow of the big bang -streaming through space these last 14 billion years like the heat from a sun-warmed rock, reradiated at night.
Chicago gang cards
Gang cards was a subculture that arose in Chicago just prior to the digital age when street gangs made business cards displaying their symbols, nicknames, territories, and enemies as a means to assert their pride, recruit new members, and serve as general tokens of affiliation.
Cocio
Cocio is a legendary Danish chocolate milk.
Einstein Tower
The Einstein Tower is an astrophysical observatory by Erich Mendelsohn. According to lore, Mendelsohn took Einstein on a long tour of the completed structure, waiting for some sign of approval. The design, while logical and perfectly sufficient to its purpose, stood out like an "ungainly spaceship" in the suburbs of Potsdam. Einstein said nothing until hours later, during a meeting with the building committee, when he whispered his one-word judgment: "Organic".
Blatnaya pesnya
Blatnaya pesnya is a musical genre covering a range of Russian songs based on the themes of the urban underclass and often criminal underworld.
Lightning Over Water
Lightning Over Water is Wim Wenders' film on Nicholas Ray before his death.
Hardy Rodenstock
Hardy Rodenstock is a former publisher and manager of pop and Schlager music in Germany and is a prominent wine collector, connoisseur and trader, with a special interest in old and rare wines. He became famous for an uncanny ability to track down old and very rare wines, and for arranging extravagant wine tastings featuring these wines.
Palmenhaus Schönbrunn
The Palmenhaus Schönbrunn is a large greenhouse in Vienna, Austria featuring plants from around the world. It opened in 1882. It is among the largest botanical exhibits of its kind in the world, with around 4,500 plant species.
Panorama Mesdag
Panorama Mesdag is a panorama by Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Housed in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, the panorama is a cylindrical painting more than 14 meters high and about 40 meters in diameter. From an observation gallery in the centre of the room the cylindrical perspective creates the illusion that the viewer is on a high sand dune overlooking the sea, beaches and village of Scheveningen in the late 19th century.