The Terrebonne Parish neighborhood of the city of Monegut in Louisiana was the principal filming location for the film Beasts of the Southern Wild.

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In the film Beasts of the Southern Wild, the mythical aurochs are enormous boars that inhabit the movie.

Aurochs are (or more accurately, were) neither mythical or pork-like. The wild ancestor of cattle, aurochs were enormous and ferocious versions of today's docile domesticated breeds. Cave paintings in France depict battles with aurochs, and their territory ranged from western Europe to eastern Asia, and into northern Africa.

Through over-hunting, habitat destruction, and diseases from domesticated cattle, the auroch numbers diminished. The last auroch died in 1627 in the forest outside of this Polish village. There is a monument there to commemorate the extinction of this species.

There is currently a scientific collaboration, Project TaurOs, to genetically recreate the auroch species.

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Dwight Henry plays the father role, Wink, in the film Beasts of the Southern Wild. The film was his first major acting role; Henry is a baker and business owner by trade. The Buttermilk Drop Bakery and Cafe is where he sells the recipes he's been perfecting for the past twenty years.

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In the hostage rescue film Argo, the swooping aerial shots feature a unique Iranian structure in Tehran.

That tower is the Azadi Tower (translated as the Freedom Tower). Completed in 1971, the tower is constructed primarily of white marble, and is a blend of Sassanid and Islamic architecture.

The architect of the building, Hossein Amanat, won the commission for the tower in an architectural contest shortly after graduating from the University of Tehran. A member of the Bahá'í faith, he continues to work, often designing buildings for that reflect his religion.

This "Gateway into Iran" was initially named the Shahyad Tower, meaning "Kings' Memorial" in commemoration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Empire, but was renamed the Azadi Tower after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Today, the plaza is a park with several fountains and an underground museum below the tower.

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During the Cold War, numerous missile silos were created throughout North America and the Soviet Union. The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is a preserved example of the operational missile sites, with nukes!

The sites were constructed in 1961. Part of the 44th Missile Wing, the D-01 and D-09 ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) silos were commissioned to deter a Soviet nuclear attack by ensuring mutual assured destruction (MAD).

Today, the facilities are a Cold War museum, and also represent the only remaining intact components of a nuclear missile field that once consisted of 150 Minuteman II missiles, 15 launch control centers, and covered over 13,500 square miles (35,000 km2) of southwestern South Dakota. The silos were decommissioned by the signing of the START treaty in 1991, and designated a national park in 1999.

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