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A computing cheese cutter manufactured by the Computing Cheese Cutter Company, Incorporated, Anderson, Indiana, USA. Patented May 23, September 26, 1903
Pearl River Delta – one of the most densely urbanized regions in the world, and is often considered a megacity. It is now the wealthiest region in South China and one of the wealthiest in the whole of China.
Wściekły pies is a Polish alcoholic drink consisting of a shot of vodka, a small amount of thick raspberry or blackcurrant juice, and several drops of tabasco sauce
The c. 1490Martellus world map held by Yale University, the first Ptolemaic map in Europe to include the Dragon's Tail rather than leave the Indian Ocean landlocked
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement.
Pounded yam and efo-riro, a traditional Nigerian recipe for a classic stew of meat and greens in a tomato and chilli-based sauce
Egusi soup with vegetables and dried catfish, prawns, beef and roasted cowskin
Every week, Cincinnati's La Soupe turns 5,000 lb (2,300 kg) of rescued food into 3,000 meals for people in need with the help of sixty local chef volunteers
The 3 major airline alliances and the current fleet size of their home carriers (excluding subsidiaries, cargo and connecting partners) as of September 2024
La Cure is a small village located thirty miles north of Geneva, Switzerland. Part of the village lies in Switzerland, and part in France, with the boundary dividing not only the village itself, but at least four structures within it.
Porfirio Rubirosa was a Dominican diplomat, race car driver, soldier and polo player who also made his mark as an international playboy for his jetsetting lifestyle and his legendary sexual prowess with women.[1]Collectivization in the Soviet Union: Illustration to the Soviet categories of peasants: bednyaks, or poor peasants; serednyaks, or mid-income peasants; and kulaks, the higher-income farmers who had larger farms than most Russian peasants. Published in Projector, May 1926.Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of publications deemed heretical or contrary to morality by the Sacred Congregation of the Index (a former Dicastery of the Roman Curia); Catholics were forbidden to read them.Fred Whibley (1855–1919) abandoned a career as clerk in a London bank to escape from the constraints and social expectations of respectability in the Victorian era. He ended up as a copra trader on Niutao in Tuvalu in the central Pacific Ocean.Fridtjof Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.Idi Amin (1925 – 16 August 2003) served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern world history.
History of technology: The wheel, invented sometime before the 4th millennium BC, is one of the most ubiquitous and important technologies. This detail of the "Standard of Ur", c. 2500 BCE., displays a Sumerian chariot.
Homo erectus reconstruction, Natural History Museum, London
Oldest dated rocks: A sample of gneiss from the site of the Earth's oldest dated rocks (the Acasta River area of Canada). This sample has been dated at 4.03 billion years old.
Time Cube was a pseudoscientific personal web page, founded in 1997 by the self-proclaimed "wisest man on earth," Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray.
Yakov Yakovlev was the editor of Bednota, a daily newspaper designed and focused toward a peasant readership that was issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow, Russia from 1924 to 1948.
Al-Zahawi Café is a heritage café located in Baghdad, Iraq, and is one of the oldest traditional cafés in Iraq with its establishment dating back to 1917.
Ernest Joyce (right), pictured with other expedition members
Bohemian Grove during the summer Hi-Jinks, circa 1911–1916
The Qing dynasty was the final imperial dynasty of China. It was established in 1636 and collapsed in 1912. A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a monarchical system, but sometimes also appearing in republics.
British Overseas Territories (same geographic scale) includes leading traditional and corporate tax global tax havens, including the U.K. itself.
2023 photograph of the building in Seattle's Central District which Black Coffee Northwest plans to occupy, as evidenced by window signage
John Lilburne (c. 1614 – 29 August 1657), also known as Freeborn John, was an English political Leveller before, during and after the English Civil Wars 1642–1650.
Housetruckers are individuals, families and groups who convert old trucks and school buses into portable homes
Red Hen restaurant controversy: On June 22, 2018, a co-owner of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders, then the White House press secretary, to leave
Monstrosity is a 1963 American science fiction horror film
Islay single malts: Whiskies from eight distilleries on Islay. When this photograph was taken in August 2004, one of the distilleries had ceased production.
Saeculum obscurum: During this period, the popes were influenced strongly by a powerful and allegedly corrupt aristocratic family, the Theophylacti, and their relatives and allies. The era is seen as one of the lowest points of the history of the papal office.
Pornocrates is an 1878 painting by the Belgian artist Félicien Rops. Various interpretations for the work exist.
Marie Rudisill (March 13, 1911 – November 3, 2006), also known as the Fruitcake Lady, was a writer and television personality, best known as the nonagenarian woman who appeared in the "Ask the Fruitcake Lady" segments on The Tonight Show on American television.
The Mansion is a four-bedroom mansion owned by music producer Rick Rubin in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles. Originally built in 1918, the house is famous for the successful bands who have recorded music there.
The World Economic Forum is an international non-governmental organization for public–private sector collaboration Switzerland.
Make America Great Again was used by Ronald Reagan as a campaign slogan in his 1980 presidential campaign, it has since been described as a loaded phrase.
Voyager 2 awaiting payload entry into a Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket
Malcolm Gladwell is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. Gladwell's writings often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences, such as sociology and psychology, and make frequent and extended use of academic work.
L.A. Reid is an American record executive, A&R representative, and record producer.
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Bolognese slang term
Umarell are men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice to the workers. Pictured are Umarells observing re-paving at the corners of Palazzo Re Enzo and Via Rizzoli, Bologna (2015–16)