gnostek1 / 9The percentages of men killed in war in eight tribal societies. ( Lawrence H. Keeley , Archeologist, War Before Civilization )
01The reconciliation requires the killer to physically embrace the victim's father; refusal voids the truce.
02The Committee of Nationwide Reconciliation claimed to have mediated over 1,200 feuds between 1990 and 2000.
03A forgiving family receives a white flag — flown publicly — signaling that the male line is no longer hunted.
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01Foucault was reportedly aware he had AIDS by 1983 and continued frequenting San Francisco bathhouses through that year.
02He coined 'biopower' — the state's management of bodies and populations — in a 1976 lecture at the Collège de France.
03His 'Discipline and Punish' (1975) opens with a four-page description of a man being drawn and quartered in 1757 Paris.
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01Gravano's testimony in 1992 sent Gotti to life in prison after three prior acquittals the press called 'The Teflon Don.'
02After witness protection, he relocated to Arizona and built an ecstasy network moving 25,000–30,000 pills weekly through suburban Phoenix.
03He admitted killing 19 people, including his own brother-in-law Nicholas Scibetta — a detail he omitted in early testimony.
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01David Greybeard was the first wild chimpanzee to accept Goodall's presence — and the first observed using a grass stem as a tool.
02Goodall had no formal science degree when Louis Leakey sent her to Gombe in 1960; he preferred it that way.
03She has traveled over 300 days per year for the past three decades advocating for conservation, into her eighties.
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01Caesar's soldiers killed roughly 10,000 Pompeians and captured 15,000 at Thapsus; the lopsided toll suggests a rout, not a battle.
02Ancient sources including Plutarch record Caesar falling into a seizure at the onset, carried to a nearby tower to recover while his army fought without him.
03After the battle, Caesar's own veterans executed several surrendered enemy officers on the spot — Caesar was reportedly unable to stop them.
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01Edison Manufacturing Company filmed Topsy's electrocution; the film, 'Electrocuting an Elephant,' was commercially distributed that same year.
02Topsy killed three men in three years, including an abusive trainer who fed her a lit cigarette.
03She was given cyanide-laced carrots, then 6,600 volts — organizers had originally planned to hang her publicly.
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01Nobel's brother Ludvig died in 1888; a French paper mistakenly ran Alfred's obituary instead.
02Dynamite, patented in 1867, replaced unstable nitroglycerin — Nobel mixed it with diatomaceous earth.
03Nobel left 94% of his estate, roughly 31 million Swedish kronor, to fund five annual prizes.
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01700 gilded spurs were stripped from dead French knights and hung in the Church of Our Lady, Kortrijk.
02The Flemish army had no cavalry — peasant infantry with iron-tipped clubs called goedendags did the killing.
03France lost the Count of Artois and over 1,000 noblemen in a single morning.
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01The helmet was found in 263 fragments; conservators spent years reconstructing it like a three-dimensional iron jigsaw.
02The burial ship was 27 meters long and left no wood — only a ghost-stain of iron rivets in the soil.
03Edith Pretty, the landowner, gifted the entire hoard to the British Museum in 1939, one of the largest private donations in its history.