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unusual facts about honeycomb


Buddleja × weyeriana 'Honeycomb'

Buddleja × weyeriana 'Honeycomb' originated as a particularly floriferous selection of 'Sungold' at Crathes Castle, Aberdeenshire, purchased by Michael Dirr on a visit to Scotland in 1995.


Dick Dusseldorp

The house which Dusseldorp built in Middle Cove is one of the top five house designs in Australia: it is based on Frank Lloyd Wright's inspirational honeycomb house design and is a good example of Organic Architecture.

E9 honeycomb

This honeycomb is last in the series of Thorold Gosset in 1900, listing polytopes and honeycombs constructed entirely of regular facets, although his list ended with the 8-dimensional the Euclidean honeycomb, 521.

Hexagon

From bees' honeycombs to the Giant's Causeway, hexagonal patterns are prevalent in nature due to their efficiency.

Honeycomb whipray

The honeycomb whipray (Himantura undulata) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found widely in the shallow coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific from India to the Malay Archipelago.

Hugo Peretti

In 1957, they bought into Roulette Records where they both wrote songs for various artists such as Valerie Carr and produced major hits for Jimmie Rodgers including "Honeycomb" (Billboard # 1) and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (Billboard # 3), and "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again" and "Secretly".

Krueger flaps

The Krueger flaps developed for the Boeing 747 were constructed from fiberglass honeycomb material and were designed to be intentionally distorted into an aerofoil section on deployment.

Mount Mansfield

At the base of these cliffs (on the western side of the Notch Road, Vermont Route 108), there is a honeycomb network of talus caves.

Ould Lammas Fair

These include livestock and traditional foods such as Yellowman, a local variant of honeycomb and 'dulse', a type of edible seaweed.

Paper honeycomb

In Switzerland and Germany, paper honeycomb has become an important material in home construction.

STAR21

Cars 1 to 3 used welded hollow aluminium extrusions, cars 4 to 5 used brazed aluminium honeycomb panels, and cars 6 to 9 used an aircraft-style Duralumin fuselage construction.

Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time

The creature at the right-hand side behind Folly, with a girl's face and grotesque body, extending a honeycomb with her left hand attached to her right arm, may represent Pleasure and Fraud.


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