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.
Staffordshire Hoard
The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold yet found. It consists of more than 1,500 items that are nearly all martial in character. The artefacts have tentatively been dated to the 7th or 8th centuries. The hoard has been valued at £3.285 million.
Flak towers
Flak towers were large, anti-aircraft gun blockhouses used by the Luftwaffe to defend against Allied air raids during World War II. They were able to fire 8000 rounds per minute with a range of up to 14 km in a full 360-degree field of fire.
Sedan crater
Sedan Crater is the result of the Sedan nuclear test. The radioactive fallout from the test contaminated more US residents than any other nuclear test, and the Sedan Crater is the largest man-made crater in the United States. It can be seen from earth orbit with the unaided eye.
Mata Hari
Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for espionage during World War I.