Broken April

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Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid

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Ismail Kadare's 1978 novel gives its protagonist thirty days to kill before his own killing month begins — a countdown that turns Albanian highland law into a death clock ticking on every page.

On Yap Island, a family's wealth included a 4-ton stone disc sitting on the ocean floor — sunk during transport centuries ago — yet everyone agreed they still owned it. The ledger was communal memory.

Dwight York built a full-scale Egyptian pyramid on a Georgia compound, declared himself an extraterrestrial, and was convicted in 2004 of molesting over 100 children — some as young as four years old.

Herzog boiled and ate his own shoe — with garlic and duck fat — after Errol Morris finished a film Herzog bet he never would. The documentary of the meal runs 28 minutes. He called the shoe "quite acceptable."

IMRO's internal purge squads killed so many of their own members — by some counts more than Ottoman officials ever did — that by the 1920s the organization was functionally a self-consuming assassination machine.

Hacked to death on his own farm by the men he employed, Eugene Terre'Blanche — South Africa's most feared white supremacist — died owing his workers two months' unpaid wages.

Minoan frescoes show unarmed athletes vaulting over charging bulls in rituals that predate the Spanish corrida by 3,000 years. The matador's suit of lights is Bronze Age costume with a modern tailor.

A single fugu pufferfish carries tetrodotoxin enough to kill 30 adults; there is no antidote. Japanese chefs must train three years and pass a written and practical exam — the failure rate exceeds 35%.

Ten men from Lashkar-e-Taiba landed by inflatable dinghy in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, killing 166 people across twelve sites over sixty hours. One attacker was captured alive and hanged four years later.