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.
Cherenkov radiation
Cherenkov radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through an insulator at a constant speed greater than the speed of light in that medium.
Glyptodon
Glyptodon was a large, armored mammal of the family Glyptodontidae, related to armadillos, that lived during the Pleistocene Epoch. Flatter than a Volkswagen Beetle, but about the same general size and weight, Glyptodon is believed to have been an herbivore, grazing on grasses and other plants found near rivers and small bodies of water.
Houbigant
Houbigant was a perfume manufacturer founded in Paris in 1775, originally selling gloves, perfumes, and bridal bouquets. A Houbigant legend has it that when Marie Antoinette was fleeing to Varennes to escape the French revolutionaries she was recognized as royalty because of her Houbigant perfume, which only royalty could afford.
Auguste Escoffier
Auguste Escoffier was a French culinary artist, known as the king of chefs and the chef of kings. He earned a worldwide reputation as director of the kitchens at the Savoy Hotel (1890–99) and afterward at the Carlton Hotel, both in London. His name is synonymous with classical French cuisine.
Heinrich Berann
Heinrich C. Berann, the father of the modern panorama map, was born into a family of painters and sculptors in Innsbruck, Austria.