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For a six-year run beginning in 1987, CS Leigh was one of the most visible - and ambitious - independent curators in the international art world. Then he vanished. He's since then hustled people in film, art, and publishing. A sadly beautiful con man.
Stevengraphs are woven silk images, amongst other things some of the earliest postcards.
Sima Humboldt is an enormous sinkhole located in Venezuela.
Skovshoved Petrol Station is a historic, still-operating filling station in Skovshoved at the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. First opened in 1936, it was designed by Arne Jacobsen and is an example of the functionalist style typical of the time.
The Solovetsky Islands of northern Russia are probably best known for the Solovetsky Monastery, a great medieval monastery that became a notorious Soviet prison camp. But these remote islands were sacred for thousands of years before the monastery's foundation in 1429, as evidenced by an array of stone alignments, circles, and mysterious labyrinths that can still be seen there today.
A canopy raft is an inflatable PVC pontoon frame with high-tension netting spread between. They're pre-inflated and lifted into position via helicopter. Once in position, the rafts are set down among the tree-tops, allowing researchers unfettered access to the uppermost reaches of the forest ecosystem. Scientists can observe from the raft, rappel from it too - they can even live on its temporary floor for several days at a time.
Sarah Baartman was the most famous of at least two hoikhoi women who were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe.
Despite adopting a policy of state atheism, the secularization project of the Soviet Union could do nothing to sever the cultural connection to Christmas.
Swaine Adeney Brigg is a British luxury bridle-leather luggage maker and umbrella-maker and retailer founded in the mid-eighteenth century.
Secretariat was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, who in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown champion in twenty-five years, setting new race records in two of the three events in the Series – the Kentucky Derby, and the Belmont Stakes – records that still stand today.