Paolo Uccello
Paolo Uccello was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art.
Frances Glessner Lee
Frances Glessner Lee was a millionaire heiress who revolutionized the study of crime scene investigation. She founded Harvard's department of legal medicine, the first program in the nation for forensic pathology.
Angel flares
A geometric design caused by the vortices of an aircraft swirling the smoke from its anti-missile flares.
Megaplumes
Imagine volcanoes that erupt with giant spinning plumes filled with microbes and other life that spin like a discus for months. Welcome to the strange, almost completely unknown life of undersea eruptions.
Dagestan
Dagestan has great ethnic diversity, with several dozen ethnic groups and subgroups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages.
Peer Raben
Peer Raben was a composer best known for his work with German film-maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In addition to Fassbinder, Raben composed music for Barbet Schroeder and Wong Kar-wai.
Ritz
Ritz was a British magazine focusing on gossip, celebrity and fashion. It was launched in 1976 by David Bailey and David Litchfield, who acted as co-editors.
Kopi Luwak
Kopi Luwak is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet.
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He is primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through the fragmented China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum.
Bryce Canyon National Park
Despite its name, this is not actually a canyon, but rather a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.