The complex was a 5-star hotel that opened in 1989. There were around 90 bedrooms as well (more…)

A 18 meter castle-inspired tower, was built at the same time as the house at the top of the bluff, and was used as a way to get (more…)

Léopold II had a tower as well as the castle of Ardenne. In 1898, this huge property became a luxury hotel with several (more…)

The Resort Hachijo was one of the largest hotels in Japan and attracted its clientele from the ever-expanding Japanese middle class. The Hachijo Royal (more…)

In 1902, the anonymous company of the large hotels in San Pellegrino invited the architect Romolo Squadrelli to design the Grand Hotel "in a modern style" (more…)

They were operated as army and navy forts, and named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The forts were decommissioned in the late 1950s and later (more…)

The famous sailing ship was built in Hamburg and launched in July 1905. She was the fifth of ten near sister ships – with a length of 375 (more…)

A painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably made in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when (more…)

The painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It depicts a European girl wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and an large pearl (more…)

Constructed in 1814 by coal viewer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett (more…)

This is the model of the Mother Ship used in the filming of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", Columbia Pictures, 1977. The ship was conceived by (more…)

Automobilwerk Eisenach was a small automotive maker from Eisenach, Germany. This company acquired the license to produce a German version (more…)

Band member Justin Hayward wrote and composed the song at age 19 in Swindon, and titled the song after a girlfriend gave him a gift of satin (more…)

A 1995 American crime film written, produced, and directed by Michael Mann, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer. De Niro plays Neil McCauley, a (more…)

A 1975 British comedy film, is a story that parodies the legend of King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail. Written and performed by the Monty Python (more…)

A 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli (more…)

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly (more…)

In December 1969, guitarist Eric Bell and keyboardist Eric Wrixon met by chance in a pub in Dublin and found that they shared similar ideas of forming (more…)