Gouldian Finch
Gouldian Finch is a bird endemic to Australia.
Alan Abel
Alan Abel is an American prankster and jazz percussionist famous for several hoaxes that became media circuses.
Richat Structure
The Richat Structure is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of Mauritania near Ouadane. It has attracted attention since the earliest space missions because it forms a conspicuous bull's-eye in the otherwise rather featureless expanse of the desert. The structure, which has a diameter of almost 50 kilometres (30 miles), has become a landmark for space shuttle crews.
Szeemann, Harald
Szeemann invented the modern-day Großausstellung ("great exhibition"), in which the artworks are tied to a central concept and are assembled into new and often surprising interrelationships.
Diavik Diamond Mine
The Diavik Diamond Mine is a diamond mine in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It has become an important part of the regional economy, employing 700, grossing C$100 million in sales, and producing 8 million carats (1600 kg) of diamonds annually.
Princess Juliana International Airport
Princess Juliana International Airport's runway is just over 7,500 feet in length, which puts it right on the limit for larger jets arriving.
Il girasole
A house that always faces the sun. The top half of the building rotates around the center of the circular track on which it rests (which happens to form the roof of the lower, static half of the building), much like the hands of a clock. Invernizzi was intent on designing a house whose main windows would always be facing the sun, so he came up with the idea you see here.
Church of St. George, Lalibela
Church of St. George is a monolithic church in Lalibela, Ethiopia.
Anatomy Theatre of Padua University
The Anatomical Theatre of Padua is the first permanent anatomical theatre in the world.
Moses Harris
As a naturalist, Harris wished to understand the relationships between the colours, and how they are coded, and his book attempted to explain the principles, "materially, or by the painters art", by which further colours can be produced from red, yellow and blue. Harris showed what is now known as the subtractive mixing of colours, with his most important observation showing that black will be formed through the superimposition of the three basic colours. Harris also discovered petrified wood.