Alte Pinakothek
Alte Pinakothek. It is one of the oldest galleries of the world housing one of the most famous art museums for the old masters.
Alte Pinakothek. It is one of the oldest galleries of the world housing one of the most famous art museums for the old masters.
Mandrills are the world's largest monkeys. No other mammal is coloured this extraordinarily.
Mazda R130 is a car.
The crawler-transporters are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39. The crawler-transporter weighs 2400 tons and has eight tracks, two on each corner.
Admont Abbey contains the largest monastic library in the world and a long-established scientific collection, and is known for its Baroque architecture and collections of art and manuscripts.
Dar Robinson was an American stunt performer and actor. Robinson broke nine world records and set 21 "world's firsts." Dar Robinson's stunts were always well planned, and he never broke a bone in his 19-year Hollywood career.
One of the most famous parquet floors is the one used by the Boston Celtics of the NBA. The original floor, which was installed at the Celtics' original home of Boston Arena in 1946, was moved intact to Boston Garden in 1952 and used there until the team moved to what was then known as FleetCenter in 1995, now known as TD Garden. The floor remained intact and in use until it was cut up and sold as souvenirs in 1999, after the 1998 demolition of Boston Garden. The Celtics today play on a parquet floor inside TD Garden that combines old and new sections
Moondog was a blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. Moving to New York as a young man, Moondog made a deliberate decision to make his home on the streets there, where he spent approximately twenty of the thirty years he lived in the city. Most days he could be found in his chosen part of town wearing clothes he had created based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. Thanks to his unconventional outfits and lifestyle, he was known for much of his life as The Viking of 6th Avenue.
This chair allowed the distinctly unathletic Edward VII to have his way with two women simultaneously, all with the minimum of effort.
The Cottingley Fairies are a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins living in Cottingley, near Bradford in England, depicting the two in various activities with supposed fairies. In 1917, when the first two photos were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10. In 1981 both women admitted that the photos were faked using cardboard cutouts. CGI has come a long way.