Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio made the most sublime villas.
Cocio
Cocio is a legendary Danish chocolate milk.
Butoh dance
Butoh is a contemporary avant-garde dance form which originated in Japan and which was first performed there in 1959. It combines dance, theater, improvisation and influences of Japanese traditional performing arts with German Expressionist dance and performance art
Superfluid
Superfluid is a state of matter in which the matter behaves like a fluid without viscosity and with extremely high thermal conductivity. The substance, which appears to be a normal liquid, will flow without friction past any surface, which allows it to continue to circulate over obstructions and through pores in containers which hold it, subject only to its own inertia.
VVV magazine
VVV magazine was the direct product of the leading Surrealists of the day. The magazine was edited by David Hare in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, and Max Ernst.
Culatello
Culatello is a refined variety of prosciutto, made from heavier pigs, cut to a fraction of the normal prosciutto and aged, and may be cured with wine, with Culatello di Zibello having PDO status.
Platt Rogers Spencer
Platt Rogers Spencer is credited as being the originator of Spencerian penmanship, a popular system of cursive handwriting. The text in Ford Motor Company's logo is written in this style, as was the original Coca-Cola logo.
Floriography
Floriography was a Victorian-era means of communication in which various flowers and floral arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which otherwise could not be spoken.
Ballistic Recovery Systems
Ballistic Recovery Systems is a company that was formed in 1980 by Boris Popov after he survived a 400 foot fall in a partly collapsed hang glider in 1975. Boris invented a parachute system which would lower a whole light airplane to the ground relatively safely for the people inside.
Prince Rupert’s Drop
Prince Rupert's Drop are a glass curiosity created by dripping hot molten glass into cold water. When the tail end is damaged, the large amount of potential energy stored in the drop's crystalline or amorphous atomic structure is released, causing fractures to propagate through the material at very high speed.