Scapino e Spinetta was made in 1618 by Dionisio Minaggio, Chief Gardener of the State of Milan. The illustrations are made with feathers and consists of 157 collages of birds, hunters, tradesmen, musicians and Commedia del’Arte figures.
Marlik is an archeological site in Iran. Artifacts found at this site date back to 3,000 years ago.
The Kanun is a set of traditional Albanian laws. The Kanun was primarily oral and only in the 20th century was it published in writing. It was first codified in the 15th century but the use of it has been outspread much earlier in time. It used under that form until the 20th century, and revived recently after the fall of the communist regime in the early 1990s.
Count of St. Germain was a European adventurer, with an interest in science and the arts. In order to deflect inquiries as to his origins, he would invent fantasies, such as him being 500 years old. He has appeared many times throughout history - even as recently as the 1970s - always appearing to be about 45 years old. He was known by many of the most famous figures of European history, including Casanova, Madame de Pampadour, Voltaire, King Louis XV, Catherine the Great, Anton Mesmer and others.
The Jacobite is a steam train operating in Scotland.
Charles Moore was an American photographer most famous for his photographs documenting the Civil Rights Era.
Fred Bremner was a Scottish photographer. His portraiture work in British India, spanning 1882 to 1922, preserves a record of life in the period.
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.
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 was an ancient Arab city in Syria. In the age of antiquity, it was an important city of central Syria.