Wouter Basson

The epitome of the Rohan Master's art is the " Lamentation of the Virgin " (f. 135, Pl. 57) from the Hours of the Cross. The grieving Virgin cannot be consoled by the Apostle John , who looks up in consternation at a saddened God.

Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907. Federal Hall National Memorial , with its statue of George Washington , is seen on the right.

From a beach house, Wouter Basson coordinated anthrax-laced sugar, poison-tipped screwdrivers, and a cholera program targeting Black South Africans — then was acquitted. The programme's codename was Project Coast.

Casu martzu

Casu martzu is Sardinian pecorino colonized by live cheese fly larvae; the maggots leap up to 15 centimeters when disturbed. EU law bans its sale, so it trades on the black market.

Malala Yousafzai

Shot in the head by a Taliban gunman on a school bus in 2012, Malala Yousafzai was airlifted to Birmingham, received reconstructive surgery, and was back in class ten months later — at age sixteen — in the same city.

Rohan Hours

In the Rohan Hours, painted around 1420, a skeletal dying man lies naked on bare ground while God leans down from the sky to address him directly — a private conversation between a mortal and the divine, held across a page smaller than a hardback book.

Braid (video game)

Braid's final level reverses time to reveal the princess the player has been chasing is not a captive — she is running from the player. The epilogue text identifies her as the atomic bomb. Jonathan Blow hid this in 2008.

Cerberus Capital Management

Cerberus Capital — named for the three-headed dog guarding the underworld — bought Chrysler from Daimler for $7.4 billion in 2007, then watched it go bankrupt in exactly 735 days. Hell kept the dog; taxpayers kept the bill.

Wieliczka Salt Mine

Polish salt miners over seven centuries carved a full Gothic cathedral — complete with chandeliers, altarpieces, and bas-relief murals — entirely from grey salt, 101 metres below the earth's surface.

Petya (malware family)

NotPetya wore a ransomware mask but had no decryption key — ever. It cost Maersk $300 million, wiped Merck's drug production, and erased FedEx's European arm in hours.

Panic of 1907

In October 1907, J.P. Morgan physically locked the nation's top bankers inside his Manhattan library at midnight and refused to open the doors until they signed a $25 million rescue pledge at 4:45 a.m.