Floriography
Floriography was a Victorian-era means of communication in which various flowers and floral arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which otherwise could not be spoken.
Villa Villekulla
Villa Villekulla is a fictional house that is the home of Pippi Longstocking. The garden where the filming took place and where Villa Villekulla stood can still be seen.
John James Audubon
John James Audubon first rose to fame through the 435 magnificent paintings he created for his landmark work, Birds of America, which detailed more than 700 bird species and was first published as a series on a subscription basis between 1827 and 1838. He shot and killed every bird he painted. Audubon was a noted hunter and taxidermist, and much of the money he made during his lifetime was from selling animal skins, a practice that in part helped to fund the printing of Birds of America.
Collyer brothers
Homer Lusk Collyer and Langley Collyer were two American brothers who became famous because of their snobbish nature, filth in their homes, and compulsive hoarding. For decades, neighborhood rumors swirled around the rarely seen, unemployed men and their home at 2078 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of 128th Street), in Manhattan, where they obsessively collected newspapers, books, furniture, musical instruments, and many other items, with booby traps set up in corridors and doorways to protect against intruders.
Denis Lavant
Denis Lavant is an actor with incredible physicality who did his best work with Leos Carax.
Ballistic Recovery Systems
Ballistic Recovery Systems is a company that was formed in 1980 by Boris Popov after he survived a 400 foot fall in a partly collapsed hang glider in 1975. Boris invented a parachute system which would lower a whole light airplane to the ground relatively safely for the people inside.
Luxor, Egypt
Luxor, Egypt is the world's greatest open-airr museum.
G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton stood 6’4″ and weighed about 300 pounds, usually had a cigar in his mouth, and walked around wearing a cape and a crumpled hat, tiny glasses pinched to the end of his nose, swordstick in hand, laughter blowing through his moustache. And usually had no idea where or when his next appointment was. He did much of his writing in train stations, since he usually missed the train he was supposed to catch.
Earthships
Earthships are built to utilize the available local resources, especially energy from the sun. For example, windows on the sunny side admit light and heat, and the buildings are often horseshoe-shaped to maximize southern sunlight and warmth in the colder months.
Plantin-Moretus Museum
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium honouring the famous printers Christoffel Plantijn and Jan Moretus. It is located in their former residence and printing establishment, Plantin Press, at the Friday Market.