I, a Woman
This classic Swedish erotic gem stars Essy Persson as Siv, a young, sexy nurse who tries to bed every man who crosses her path. Siv uses her raw sexuality to entice, seduce and eventually desert every man who loves or desires her.
Ice houses
Ice houses originally invented in Persia were buildings used to store ice throughout the year, prior to the invention of the refrigerator. The most common designs involved underground chambers, usually man-made, which were built close to natural sources of winter ice such as freshwater lakes.
Iron pillar of Delhi
The iron pillar of Delhi, India is a 7 meter high pillar in the Qutb complex which is notable for the composition of the metals used in its construction. The pillar is 98% pure wrought iron, and is a testament to the high level of skill achieved by ancient Indian ironsmiths. It has attracted the attention of both archaeologists and metallurgists, as it has withstood corrosion for over 1,600 years in the open air.
Immortal jellyfish
The immortal jellyfish is found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the waters of Japan. It is one of the few known cases of animals capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary individual. Once the adults have reproduced, they don’t die but transform themselves back into their juvenile polyp state. Their tentacles retract, their bodies shrink, and they sink to the ocean floor and start the cycle all over again.
Iver Johnson Safety Hammer Automatic
Iver Johnson Safety Hammer Automatic is a classic revolver.
Ivo Karlović
Ivo Karlović holds the fastest serve recorded in professional tennis, measured at 251 km/h and he is considered one of the best servers on tour. His height enables him to serve with high speed and unique trajectory
Curiosities of Literature
Curiosities of Literature is the epic cornucopia of essays on all things literary by Isaac D’Israeli. In a preface, D’Israeli described his ever-evolving work as a “voluminous miscellany, composed at various periods … a circuit of multifarious knowledge [which] could not be traced were we to measure and count each step by some clinical pedometer.” It would, however, be a misjudgment to regard the miscellany as a jungle of whimsical impressions or fanciful thoughts. Rather, it is a man-made woodland landscaped, cultivated, and manicured by an urban if not urbane gentleman.
International Necronautical Society
The International Necronautical Society is a semi-fictional organization closely modeled on European avant-gardes of the early 20th century. It replays, not without parody, the politically-inflected structures of these avant-gardes, with their manifestoes, committees, splinter groups and purges. At the same time the INS makes use of these structures to generate artistic projects that explore the relations between death and representation. The representation of physical death, as in obituaries and memorials, is only a starting point for the INS’s exploration of the ways that all representations inhabit a zone of conceptual death. Death is viewed by the INS as “a cipher for the outer limit of description, for the point at which the code breaks down”.
Ice yachting
A winter sport of sailing and racing on ice in modified boats. An iceboat is basically a sailboat that travels on thin blades, or runners, on the surface of the ice.
Iridium 52
Recorded near twilight on August 13, the bright streak is not the flash of a meteor trail but sunlight glinting from a satellite. The satellite, Iridium 52, is one of a constellation of Iridium digital communication satellites in Earth orbit known for producing stunning, predictable flares as they momentarily reflect sunlight from shiny antenna surfaces.