Fred Bremner
Fred Bremner was a Scottish photographer. His portraiture work in British India, spanning 1882 to 1922, preserves a record of life in the period.
Martin and Osa Johnson
In the first half of the 20th century an American couple, Martin and Osa Johnson, captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, faraway lands. Photographers, explorers, marketers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa studied the wildlife and peoples of East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo. They explored then-unknown lands and brought back film footage and photographs, offering many Americans their first understanding of these distant lands.
Penny dreadfuls
A penny dreadful was a type of British fiction publication in the 19th century that usually featured lurid serial stories appearing in parts over a number of weeks, each part costing a penny. The penny dreadfuls were printed on cheap pulp paper and were aimed primarily at working-class adolescents.
Palmyra
Palmyra was an ancient Arab city in Syria. In the age of antiquity, it was an important city of central Syria.
Runit Island
Beneath this concrete dome on Runit Island, part of Enewetak Atoll, built between 1977 and 1980 at a cost of about $239 million, lie 111,000 cubic yards or radioactive soil and debris from Bikini and Rongelap atolls.
Spinalonga
Spinalonga is located at the eastern section of Crete. The island was used as a leper colony, from 1903 to 1957. It is notable for being one of the last active leper colonies in Europe.
C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries
C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries is a New York City pharmacy established in 1838.
Leyat Helica
These vehicles were designed and built in the early 1920's in France by a man named Marcel Leyat.
The Japanese Box
In 1968, a magazine with the programmatic title Provoke was published in Tokyo by the photographer and writer Takuma Nakahira, the art critic Koji Taki and other members. Investigating the relation between photography and text, the magazine was an artistic and philosophical manifesto, responding to the upheavals of the late sixties. Originally published in very small editions (Provoke magazine had a print run of 1,000 copies), the publications reprinted in The Japanese Box are extremely rare today and almost impossible to find, even in Japan.
Alexandre Étienne Choron
Alexandre Étienne Choron was a French chef. Choron is also remembered for his dishes served during the Siege of Paris by the Prussians in which began on September 19, 1870. During the siege, Parisians were reduced to eating cats, dogs, and rats. The bourgeois were not content to eat on such low animals, and demand at the de luxe restaurants remained high. As food reserves dwindled, these restaurants, including Voisin, improvised. Choron eyed the animals kept at the local zoo, and served exotic animal dishes at Voisin. For the midnight Christmas meal of 1870, Choron proposed a menu principally composed of the best parts of the animals kept in the Jardin d'acclimatation (one of Paris' zoos) – stuffed head of donkey, elephant consommé, roasted camel, kangaroo stew, bear shanks roasted in pepper sauce, wolf in deer sauce, cat with rat, and antelope in truffle sauce – has become legendary. The menu's wines were Mouton-Rothschild 1846, Romanée-Conti 1858 and Château Palmer 1864.