Ferrante Imperato
Ferrante Imperato was a Neapolitan apothecary and herbalist with a broad range of interests. His cabinet of curiosities featured animals, stuffed birds, shells, stones, gems, and fossils.
Meilleur Ouvrier de France
Un des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France is a craftsmen competition, held every four years. Created in 1924 and given to the best craftsmen competing in each field, it covers everything from chocolate making and pâtisserie to specific building trades, including Window making and cabinetry. Each competitor enters a masterpiece which demonstrates his craft, which is then evaluated against extremely stringent standards.
Capgras delusion
Capgras delusion is a disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that a friend, spouse or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
Storie Naturali
Storie Naturali is a book by Luigi Serafini. It contains an entirely invented botanical fantastic world with 22 leaves, printed as illustrations enclosed in pockets which can be extracted from an enchanted forest of trees.
Bagger 288
The Bagger 288 (Excavator 288) is a bucket-wheel excavator, the largest in the world.
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a neutrino observatory located in Ontario, Canada.
Varya Akulova
Varya Akulova is a strong Ukrainian woman. She holds two Guinness records and is able to lift up to four times her own body weight.
Pykrete
Pykrete is a composite material made of approximately 14 percent sawdust or some other form of wood pulp and 86 percent ice by weight. Its use was proposed during World War II by Geoffrey Pyke to the British Royal Navy as a candidate material for making a huge, unsinkable aircraft carriers.
Laser harp
A laser harp is an electronic musical instrument consisting of several laser beams to be blocked, in analogy with the plucking of the strings of a harp, in order to produce sounds.
Bezoar
A bezoar is a mass found trapped in the gastrointestinal system.