Rei Kawakubo
Rei Kawakubo is a Japanese fashion designer.
Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand is a photographer.
Hans Bolling
Hans Bolling is a Danish designer who became famous for his mid-century modern themed Danish wooden toy figurines.
The Human Drift
The Human Drift is a work of Utopian social planning, written by King Camp Gillette and first published in 1894. The book details Gillette's theory that replacing competitive corporations with a single giant publicly owned trust ("the United Company") would cure virtually all social ills.
Colditz Castle
Colditz Castle, a forbidding medieval edifice near Leipzig, Germany, was supposed to be the Nazis' most escape-proof prison. Incorrigible Allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other camps were sent to Colditz, the only German POW camp with more guards than prisoners. Yet English, French, Polish, Dutch, and other inmates managed to sneak out in surprising numbers.
Underwater hockey
The British Navy invented underwater hockey in the 1950's to keep their divers fit and to improve their ability to move and work efficiently under water.
Huacachina
Huacachina is an oasis in Peru.
Ryugyong Hotel
Ryugyong Hotel is a hotel in North Korea. Construction began in 1987 and ceased in 1992, due to the government's financial difficulties. The unfinished hotel remained untouched until April 2008, when construction resumed after being inactive for 16 years.
The Moon and the Sledgehammer
As peculiar as it is hypnotic, Philip Trevelyan's 1971 oddity documents a bold British family living off the grid in the Sussex woods.
Glass Flowers
Glass Flowers is a collection of highly-realistic glass botanical models at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.