Hildebrand & Wolfmuller
The Hildebrand and Wolfmüller was the world's first production motorcycle. Approximately two thousand examples of this motorcycle were built.
Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio made the most sublime villas.
Vrondados rocket war
The rocket war is an old custom of Vrondados, Greece that began since the time of the Turkish occupation and it still happens every year in the Easter. Firstly the residents of the two parishes, Panagia Erithiani and Saint Mark's, which are facing each other, made extempore little cannons. But all these by the time became extempore rockets, fireworks made from niter, sulphur and gun-powder.
Palace of Caserta
The Royal Palace of Caserta is a former royal residence in Caserta, constructed for the Bourbon kings of Naples. It was the largest palace and one of the largest buildings erected in Europe during the eighteenth century.
Carré d’Hermès
The first carré d’Hermès was made in 1937. Since the late 1930’s, over 1,500 different versions have been made, and Hermès tends to work with a number of different artists every season.
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".