The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is an annual automotive event held on the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. It is widely considered the most prestigious car show in the world and it is the pinnacle Concours d'Elegance competition worldwide. The event open to both prewar and postwar collector cars in which they are judged for authenticity, function, history, and style.
The köçek was typically a very handsome young male slave effeminate dancer, who usually cross-dressed in feminine attire, and was employed as an entertainer.
Tournedos Rossini is a French steak dish consisting of a beef tournedos, pan-fried in butter, served on a crouton, and topped with a hot slice of fresh whole foie gras briefly pan-fried at the last minute. The dish is garnished with slices of black truffle and finished with a Madeira demi-glace sauce. It is named after 19th-century composer Gioachino Rossini.
The Beauty of Loulan is the preserved dead body of a woman who lived about 4000 years ago, during the Bronze Age. Unlike Egyptian mummies, which were preserved on purpose, the Loulan Beauty was preserved almost by accident. She was buried near a salt lake in the desert, where the arid and dry conditions preserved even the finer details of her face, such as her eyelashes.
Iris Love was one of the most prominent female archeologists of the 1960s and 1970s. The society beauty was fodder for the media, appearing in the New York Times with her tanned limbs (honed from a 12-year dig in Turkey) and her cropped blonde hair three times. One report noted her stacks of fan mail at her Upper East Side apartment.
Mark Birley was the doyen of upper-crust nightclub owners in London's West End. From the outset, Birley's approach was summed up by the phrase "only the best": no expense would be spared, either by himself as owner and investor or by members, who were charged the highest prices for membership, meals and drinks. For this, they received impeccable service, obsessive attention to the tiniest detail of decor, presentation, and exclusivity. The basic qualification for membership was money, preferably old money; but Birley had the commercial sense to allow in new money as well - provided there was plenty of it - discreetly enabling the nouveaux riches to rub shoulders with the louche end of the establishment, while lightening the wallets of all. But a life informed by, and dedicated to, luxury was no protection against sorrow. The face of his younger son, Robin, was terribly scarred at Aspinall's zoo when he was allowed into a tiger's cage at the age of 12. His elder son, Rupert, vanished without trace off the coast of Togo in 1986.
Anna Mouglalis is a French actor.
Heather Whitestone is a former beauty queen who was the first deaf Miss America titleholder, having lost most of her hearing at age 18 months.
Maharani Sita Devi was a colorful lady who led an extravagant life for over 40 years. She met her second husband, Pratap Singh Gaekwar at the Madras horse races in 1943. At that time, he was considered the eighth richest man in the world.
Gloria Vanderbilt is an American artist, actress, heiress, and socialite most noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans. She also looks somewhat like an animal.