Las Medulas - Roman Gold Mines In Spain

Roman military commander Pliny the Elder, who was born in Lombardy, was leading mining in Spain (Hispania at the time).

Who was Rudolph Lipschitz?

Who was the mysterious Rudolph Lipschitz, from whom the famous Lipschitz Continuity gets its name? He was a German mathematician born in 1832 in Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia, the administrative centre of the Kaliningrad oblast). He studied with Gustave Dirichlet of number theory fame (also credited with introducing the modern notion of a function) at the University of Berlin. He passed away in 1903 in Bonn.

What is a WEC?

A WEC is a wave energy converter. The European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney has a classification for different types of WECs, ranging from Attenuator to Rotating Mass converters.

Sidebar - The largest island on the Orkney archipelago (roughly 70 islands) is Mainland, derived from Old Norse Meginland.

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

Andy Serkis plays Caesar. Nassau County-born Matt Reeves directs. With a $150m budget, and $490m box office, WOPA was a financial success. Novelist Pierre Boulle created the concept underlying the franchise with his 1963 novel "La Planète des Singes" (initially released in the UK as "Monkey Planet").

Lime Plaster

Lime plaster is a type of plaster consisting of sand, water and lime. One of the earliest known examples of its use is at Ain Ghazaal in Jordan.

Reinventing Bathrooms

The Duravit line also sports matching bathroom furniture.

Reinventing Radio

Ruark Audio makes modern radios.