Walls of Babylon

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Herodotus ranked Babylon's walls among the world's wonders; excavations showed he undersold them — the outer wall ran 90 feet thick, wide enough to turn a four-horse chariot on top.

While Unit 731 experimented on humans, Unit 100 infected horses, cattle, and water supplies with anthrax, glanders, and sheep-pox — then measured how fast an army without animals collapses.

Anzaldúa theorized the US–Mexico border not as a line but a wound that produces a new consciousness — mestiza, queer, split-tongued. She wrote 'Borderlands' in 1987 in poverty, on a used typewriter.

Heart Mountain, Wyoming, housed 10,767 Japanese Americans at its 1942 peak — making it Wyoming's third-largest city. It had a post office, a high school, and a fence with armed guards. It lasted three years.

Nazis stripped a room of six tons of amber panels in 1941; eighty years of excavations, tunnels, and deathbed confessions have recovered nothing. Where do you hide a room?

Colin Powell held up a vial of fake anthrax and pointed to blurred satellite photos at the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003. He later called it 'a blot' — his single worst word.

Paris workers governed themselves for 72 days in 1871, burning the Tuileries Palace on their way out. The French army then shot an estimated 10,000 Communards in one week. Self-rule ended in a mass grave.

At Entebbe, hijackers sorted 248 passengers by passport — Jews to one side, non-Jews released. The remaining hostages were held in a terminal as ransom for 53 prisoners held across four countries. Israeli commandos flew 2,500 miles to answer.

Montenegro's founding epic, written by Prince-Bishop Njegoš in 1847, celebrates the Christmas Eve slaughter of Muslims who had converted from Christianity — and is still taught in schools as national literature.