01Hadrian founded the city of Antinopolis on the exact Nile bank where Antinous drowned.
02Antinous was declared a god — one of the last new deities officially recognized by Rome.
03Hadrian was the first Roman emperor to wear a full beard, reportedly to cover facial scars.
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01Kirby cannot lose a life in Epic Yarn; being hit just scatters beads across the felt landscape.
02The game's art style was inspired by a developer's accidental texture swap during early prototyping.
03Entire levels stretch and fold like fabric — a zipper opens a hidden room; a button holds a bridge.
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01US pilots described the slaughter as a 'turkey shoot'; some refused further passes over the column.
02The carnage stretched 60 miles from Kuwait City toward Basra along a single road.
03Photos of charred Iraqi soldiers in their vehicles, published worldwide, pressured Bush to call the ceasefire.
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01The Martel Chamber inside Škocjan is 308 metres long, 89 metres wide, and 146 metres tall — among Earth's largest underground spaces.
02The Reka River's underground section drops 163 metres in elevation before emerging as the Timavo River near the Adriatic coast.
03The caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, partly for their underground ecosystem of endemic species.
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01Parkhurst voted in the 1868 U.S. presidential election in Santa Cruz County, the first known trans man to do so in America.
02Described by contemporaries as among the finest stagecoach drivers on the California-Oregon run, handling six-horse teams in mountain snow.
03At death in 1879, a coroner's examination revealed Parkhurst's birth sex — news that reached newspapers across the country within days.
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01Casartelli's skull fractured on a roadside concrete drainage block on the Portet d'Aspet descent.
02He was 24, married, with a son born just months before the race.
03Lance Armstrong won the very next stage and pointed skyward at the line, for Casartelli.
gnostek1 / 11A tulip, known as "the Viceroy" ( viseroij ), displayed in the 1637 Dutch catalogue Verzameling van een Meenigte Tulipaanen ("Collection of a Crowd of Tulips"). Its bulb was offered for sale for between 3,000 and 4,200 guilders (florins)…
01The Semper Augustus bulb peaked at 10,000 guilders — equal to ten times a skilled craftsman's annual wage.
02At the crash's peak, tulip futures contracts were sold in taverns for bulbs that hadn't yet grown.
03Some historians argue the 'mania' was exaggerated — only a narrow merchant class was ever truly exposed.
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01Lorz claimed it was a joke; the Amateur Athletic Union banned him for life, then reversed it after a year.
02The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy mid-race by his handlers.
03Four of the 32 starters finished; the course was a Georgia-summer 90°F with a single water station.
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01The scroll Schneemann read contained a real letter from critic Annette Michelson mocking her as merely 'erotic.'
02She performed it at 'An Evening of Erotic Film' in New York, 1975, standing naked on a table.
03The act reframed the vagina as an archive — a place from which critical theory could be formally extracted and cited.