Ann Salens

Ann Salens was a Belgian fashion designer. She is considered to be the first Belgian international fashion designer. She pioneered the use of light, music, and art during her fashion shows. Her biggest success is the "fringed dress", a simple knitted dress in which long loops are crocheted. Salens was popular in hippie culture. In Belgium, the general public got to know Salens' clothing through Ann Christy, in France through Juliette Gréco.

Réacteur Université de Strasbourg

The Réacteur Universitaire de Strasbourg (RUS) was a 100 kW thermal Argonaut-class reactor built at the University Louis-Pasteur, located in the commune of Schiltigheim near Strasbourg. RUS went critical on 22 November 1966 and ended operations on 31

Fanny Paelinck-Horgnies

Fanny Paelinck-Horgnies was a Belgian painter of German origin, known for her works in religious painting, portraiture, history painting, genre scenes and mythological scenes. Her style can be compared to neo-classicism

Greif cannon

The Griffin cannon, also called Vogel Greif,, is one of the largest cannons from the 16th century. Since 1984, it has been in display in the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz. The possession of the cannon moved several times between Germany and France

Iglesia de la Vera Cruz, Segovia

The church of the True Cross is a Roman Catholic church located in the San Marcos district of the city of Segovia, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, in Spain. Formerly known as the Church of Holy Sepulchre, it is located to the north of

Henri Borguet

Henri Borguet was Belgian entrepreneur who built in Belgium the first steam passenger railway in continental Europe, between Brussels and Mechelen

Carl Gunnar Engström

Carl Gunnar David Engström was a Swedish physician and innovator. He is the inventor of the first intermittent positive pressure mechanical ventilator that could deliver breaths of controllable volume and frequency and also deliver inhalation anesthetics

Hitoshi Kumano-Go

Hitoshi Kumano-Go was a Japanese mathematician who specialized in partial differential equations. He is especially recognized for his work on pseudo-differential operators and Fourier integral operators

Kenzō Yagi

Kenzō Yagi was a Japanese mineralogist and petrologist who specialized in experimental mineralogy and petrology. Yagiite, a new mineral found in the Colomera meteorite, was named after him for its contribution to the petrology

Südwall

The Mediterranean Wall, also known as the Southern Wall, was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany during the Second World War, between 1943 and 1945

Beth Killoran

Beth Anne Killoran is an American information technology executive and civil servant. She is the deputy chief information officer (CIO) of the General Services Administration. Killoran was previously the CIO of the United States Department of Health and