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Gordonstoun is a boarding school in Scotland. Three generations of British royalty were educated at Gordonstoun, including the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales. Seamanship has been a main part of the curriculum since the school began.
TV Party was a cult public-access television cable TV show in New York City that ran from 1978 to 1982. Guests on the show included Mick Jones, David Byrne, Debbie Harry, James Chance, Klaus Nomi, Charles Rocket, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Giant spider webs are the product of arachnids working together.
The Beautiful Boy is a book by Germaine Greer. It's a study of the youthful male face and form, from antiquity to the present day, from paintings and drawings to statuary and photographs.
The Great Man-Made River is a network of pipes that supplies water to the Sahara Desert in Libya. It is the world's largest irrigation project. According to its website, it is the largest underground network of pipes (2820 km) and aqueducts in the world. It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m3 of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirt and elsewhere. Muammar al-Gaddafi has described it as the Eighth Wonder of the World.
Jean-Paul Goude is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer who has made some of the most iconic images of the 20th and 21st century.
The Guoliang Tunnel is carved along the side of and through a mountain in China. The tunnel links the village of Guoliang to the outside through the Taihang Mountains. The village was named after a fugitive rebel during the Han Dynasty, who had fought an overwhelming imperial force to a standstill utilizing the extreme local terrain. Before the tunnel was constructed, access to the nearby village of Guoliang was restricted to a difficult path carved into the mountainside. The village is nestled in a valley surrounded by towering mountains cut off from outside civilization.
Grace Coddington was the creative director of US Vogue for 28 years.
The Glass Pavilion, built in 1914 by Bruno Taut, was a prismatic glass dome structure at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition. The structure was a brightly colored landmark at the exhibition, and was constructed using concrete and glass.
In Girlfriends, first-time writer-director Claudia Weill created a compelling depiction of a woman look at a woman growing, awkwardly and not without pain, into her adult life - that is, the life of an independent woman and artist in New York City. This film also offers what is inarguably one of cinema's most honest and insightful looks at the complex bonds between women, detailing with extraordinary sensitivity (and bits of quirky humor) the shifts, both small and seismic, that occur when one of the halves of a sustaining heterosexual female friendship effectively leaves to get married.