Blue Java banana
The Blue Java is a hardy, cold-tolerant banana cultivar known for its sweet aromatic fruit, which is said to have an ice cream-like consistency and flavor reminiscent of vanilla.
Laguna Garzón Bridge
The Laguna Garzón Bridge is a bridge crossing the Laguna Garzón in Uruguay, on the border between the Maldonado and Rocha departments. The bridge is famous for its unusual circular shape and was designed by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly.
Ming of Harlem
Ming was a tiger that was found living in an apartment in Harlem, New York City, in October 2003, when he was approximately three years old. Ming lived semi-openly with his owner, Antoine Yates, in a room of Yates' five-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor of a large public housing complex in Harlem. Several other normal and exotic pets were found in the apartment, including an alligator named Al in another bedroom.
Luigi Ontani
Luigi Ontani is an Italian artist.
Köçek
The köçek was typically a very handsome young male slave effeminate dancer, who usually cross-dressed in feminine attire, and was employed as an entertainer.
Luigi Colani
Luigi Colani was a German industrial designer known for his groundbreaking and futuristic design concepts across various fields, including transportation, consumer products, and architecture. Colani's designs are characterized by their organic and aerodynamic forms, inspired by nature and biomimicry principles.
Singing sand
Singing sand refers to sand that produces sound, typically caused by either wind passing over dunes or by the act of walking on the sand. Several conditions must align to create this phenomenon: the sand grains must be round and fall within a specific diameter range of 0.1 to 0.5 mm, the sand must contain silica, and it must reach a certain level of humidity. The most commonly emitted frequency is around 450 Hz.
Al-Araqeeb
Al-Araqeeb is a Bedouin village located in the Negev desert region of southern Israel. The village has gained international attention due to its ongoing legal and political struggles with the Israeli government over land ownership and residency rights. The history of Al-Araqeeb dates back several generations, with Bedouin families residing in the area for decades. However, the Israeli government does not recognize the village as an official settlement and has repeatedly attempted to demolish the structures and forcibly evict its residents. The village has been rebuilt over 200 times.
Joybubbles
Joybubbles was an early phone phreak. Born blind, he became interested in telephones at age four. He had absolute pitch, and was able to whistle 2600 hertz into a telephone, an operator tone also used by blue box phreaking devices. Joybubbles said that he had an IQ of "172 or something". As a five-year-old, Joybubbles discovered he could dial phone numbers by clicking the hang-up switch rapidly ("tapping"), and at the age of 7 he accidentally discovered that whistling at certain frequencies could activate phone switches. A student at the University of South Florida in the late 1960s, he was given the nickname "Whistler" due to his ability to place free long-distance phone calls by whistling the proper tones with his mouth. After a Canadian operator reported him for selling such calls for $1 at the university, he was suspended and fined $25 but soon reinstated. He later graduated with a degree in philosophy and moved to Tennessee.
Model M keyboard
Model M keyboards are a group of computer keyboards designed and manufactured by IBM starting in 1985.