Pushball
Pushball is a game played by two sides on a field usually 140 yards long and 50 yards wide, with a ball 6 feet in diameter and 50 pounds in weight. Occasionally, much heavier balls were used.
André Kertész
André Kertész was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay.
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Mário de Sá-Carneiro was a Portuguese poet and writer. While World War I was in progress in the north of France, he quit the university and started a relationship with a prostitute. A few months later, with growing financial problems and suffering from depression, Sá-Carneiro wrote a dramatic letter to Fernando Pessoa on March 31, 1916: «Unless a miracle, next Monday, March (or even the day before), your friend Mário de Sá-Carneiro will take a strong dose of strychnine and disappear from this world.» Extremely unhappy with his life, he still delayed the suicide almost one month. But, as he had proclaimed, at the age of 25 he killed himself swallowing a large dose of strychnine on April 26, 1916, at Hôtel de Nice in the Montmartre district of Paris.
Marie-Laure de Noailles
Marie-Laure de Noailles was one of the 20th century's most daring and influential patrons of the arts, noted for her associations with Salvador Dalí, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, Francis Poulenc, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank and others as well as her tempestuous life and eccentric personality.
Kalash
According to legend the Kalash people are the lost warriors of Alexander the Great's army.
Elaine Kaufman
Elaine Kaufman, was something of a symbol of New York as the salty den mother of Elaine’s, one of the city’s best-known restaurants and a second home for almost half a century to writers, actors, athletes and other celebrities.
Raymond Massaro
Massaro, whose shoes fetch 3,000 euros ($4,000) a pair, takes pride in the traditions of his craft, even using the old pedal-operated sewing machines from his father's era.
Julius Erving
Julius Erving is a retired American basketball player who helped launch a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and play above the rim.
Francois Freres
Francois Freres makes oak barrels.
Pineider
Francesco Pineider opened his first shop in Florence in 1774, and for more than two hundred years Pineider has remained a point of reference for people who love style, beauty and the refined culture of writing. Pineider continues today with this tradition and still produces hand-made papers and hand-engraved stationery, and luxury leather goods.