Struwwelpeter
Heinrich Hoffman's 1845 bedtime classic Struwwelpeter is a collection of morality tales in which children are - with gleeful abandon - immolated, humiliated, and mutilated by men with giant scissors.
Heinrich Hoffman's 1845 bedtime classic Struwwelpeter is a collection of morality tales in which children are - with gleeful abandon - immolated, humiliated, and mutilated by men with giant scissors.
Borgund Stave Church is a stave church located in Norway. It is classified as a triple nave stave church of the so-called Sogn-type. This is also the best preserved of Norway's 28 extant stave churches.The churches dragon heads a lot like gargoyles that are found on cathedrals, are used as drainage systems for the church.
Super Soaker is a brand of recreational water guns.
The Makarov pistol was the Soviet Union's standard military side arm from 1951-1991.
The Boeing 2707 was developed as the first American supersonic transport. Rising costs and the lack of a clear market led to its cancellation in 1971 before two prototypes had been completed.
21 Club is a New York City restaurant and former prohibition-era speakeasy. The walls and ceiling of the Bar Room are covered with antique toys and sports memorabilia donated by famous patrons.
Mortelle randonnée is a film in which a lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husbands on their wedding night. Although he never approaches her directly, he follows her and increasingly feels to be telepathically connected to her, because she reminds him of his daughter he never met.
The albino Burmese python is one of the five largest snakes in the world.
The Lundehund has a great range of motion in its joints, allowing it to fit into narrow passages. The head can be bent backward along the dog's own spine, and the forelegs can turn to the side at a 90-degree angle to its body, much like human arms. Its pricked, upright ears can be sealed nearly shut by folding them forward or backward. It has six toes, all fully formed, jointed and muscled. The Lundehund is adapted to climb narrow cliff paths in Norway where it natively would have hunted puffins.
Prince Rupert's Drop are a glass curiosity created by dripping hot molten glass into cold water. When the tail end is damaged, the large amount of potential energy stored in the drop's crystalline or amorphous atomic structure is released, causing fractures to propagate through the material at very high speed.