Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider was an Austrian actress.
Noguchi Museum
Noguchi Museum was designed and created by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi in 1985 to preserve and display his work.
Antonov AN-225
Antonov AN-225 is powered by six turbofan engines and is the longest and heaviest aircraft ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes.
Marie-Antoine Carême
Marie Antoine Carême was an early practitioner and exponent of haute cuisine. Carême is often considered as one of the first, internationally renowned celebrity chefs.
Platt Rogers Spencer
Platt Rogers Spencer is credited as being the originator of Spencerian penmanship, a popular system of cursive handwriting. The text in Ford Motor Company's logo is written in this style, as was the original Coca-Cola logo.
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.