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The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The city of Haarlem in The Netherlands has set a prize of 100,000 guilders to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded, but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and at last his rescuer.

Antonov AN-225

Antonov AN-225 is powered by six turbofan engines and is the longest and heaviest aircraft ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes.

John James Audubon

John James Audubon first rose to fame through the 435 magnificent paintings he created for his landmark work, Birds of America, which detailed more than 700 bird species and was first published as a series on a subscription basis between 1827 and 1838. He shot and killed every bird he painted. Audubon was a noted hunter and taxidermist, and much of the money he made during his lifetime was from selling animal skins, a practice that in part helped to fund the printing of Birds of America.

Albino Burmese Python

The albino Burmese python is one of the five largest snakes in the world.

Acid brass

Acid brass was a musical collaboration between Turner-Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and the Williams Fairey Brass Band. The project was based on fusing the music of a traditional brass band with acid house and Detroit techno.

Monzer al-Kassar

Monzer al-Kassar, also known as the Prince of Marbella, is an international arms dealer. He has been connected to numerous crimes, including the Achille Lauro hijacking and the Iran-Contra scandal. In 1985 he was the subject of a profile in the French magazine Paris Match, which wrote, "in a few years, this Syrian merchant became one of the most powerful businessmen in the world."

Area

Area was a legendary nightclub that operated from 1983 to 1987 at 157 Hudson Street in New York City.

The Battle of Alexander at Issus

The Battle of Alexander at Issus is a 1529 oil painting by the German artist Albrecht Altdorfer. The painting is widely regarded as Altdorfer's masterpiece, and is one of the most famous examples of the type of Renaissance landscape painting known as the world landscape, which here reaches an unprecedented grandeur.

Andrzej Wróblewski

Andrzej Wróblewski was a Polish painter who died in a tragic mountaineering accident in 1957 when he was only 30. He is recognized by many as one of Poland's most prominent artists in the early post World War II era, creating an individualistic approach to figurative painting.

Ant mill

An ant mill is a phenomenon where a group of army ants separated from the main foraging party lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion.

Opus

Encyclopædia of the sublime

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