Pachinko
Despite Japan’s strict gambling laws, pachinko, a pinball derivative played by millions of people, is a national obsession generating 30 trillion yen profit a year.
Hmong people
The Hmong is an ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. In the early 1960s, the CIA's Special Activities Division began to recruit, train and lead the indigenous Hmong people in Laos to join fighting the Vietnam War. About 60% of the Hmong men in Laos were supported by the CIA to join fighting in secret war in Laos.
Klotz
Klotz is a family of violin makers. Members of the Klotz family have made violins in Mittenwald, Germany from the mid-17th century to the present. The Klotz family taught other families of the village the violin trade, and Mittenwald prospered and became well known for its violins.
Kumis
Kumis is a fermented dairy product traditionally made from mare's milk. The drink remains important to the peoples of the Central Asian steppes.
La Mamounia
The history of La Mamounia is as fascinating as the hotel. Situated on the edge of the walls of the old city of Marrakech, La Mamounia is named for its 200-year-old gardens, which were given as an 18th century wedding gift to Prince Moulay Mamoun by his father. Winston Churchill called it, "the most lovely spot in the whole world." It also has its own perfume, a delicate scent of cedar wood, a fragrance created exclusively for La Mamounia by the prestigious nose Olivia Giacobetti.
World passport
The World Passport is a document issued by the World Service Authority, a non-profit organization founded by Garry Davis in 1948. World Passports have reportedly been accepted on a de facto, case-by-case basis by over 150 countries, including Ecuador, Tanzania, and Togo.
Fernando de Noronha
Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago of 21 islands and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, 354 km offshore from the Brazilian coast. The archipelago's name is a corruption of the name of the Portuguese merchant Fernão de Loronha, to whom it was given by the Portuguese crown for services rendered regarding wood imported from Brazil. The islands of this archipelago are the visible parts of a range of submerged mountains. It consists of 21 islands, islets and rocks of volcanic origin.
Mosuo tribe
The Mosuo people are known as the Kingdom of Women. Men and women are free to have multiple partners and to initiate or break off relationships when they please. Women have the choice to invite men of interest to their private sleeping room. If the man does not reciprocate this desire, he may simply never visit the woman's household. They have no word for "father" or "husband".
Luxor, Egypt
Luxor, Egypt is the world's greatest open-airr museum.
Terra Australis
Terra Australis was a hypothetical continent appearing on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century.