Whistler’s Nocturnes
In these works Whistler aimed to convey a sense of the beauty and tranquility of the Thames by night.
Book of 101 Books
Rare book maven Andrew Roth has turned his powers of judgment toward photography in The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century. Given two full pages each, the selections receive a bibliographic and physical description and a publishing history, as well as cover images and a few choice samples of their contents there are 500 color illustrations in all.
Albertus Seba
Albertus Seba was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector. His early work on taxonomy and natural history influenced Linnaeus.
Chefchaouen
Chefchaouen is a Moroccan city noted for its buildings in shades of blue.
Gia Carangi
Gia Carangi was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. After she became addicted to heroin, Carangi's modeling career rapidly declined. She later became infected with HIV and died at the age of 26. Her death was not widely publicized and few people in the fashion industry knew of it.
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.
Borgund Stave Church
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 soakers
Super Soaker is a brand of recreational water guns.
Makarov pistol
The Makarov pistol was the Soviet Union's standard military side arm from 1951-1991.
Boeing 2707
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.