Controversies surrounding Silvio Berlusconi

Heracles , wearing his characteristic lion-skin, club in right hand, leash in left, presenting a three-headed Cerberus, snakes coiling from his snouts, necks and front paws, to a frightened Eurystheus hiding in a giant pot. Caeretan hydria…

Plate 34: Por una navaja ( For a clasp knife ). A garroted priest grasps a crucifix in his hands. Pinned to his chest is a description of the crime for which he was killed—possession of a knife.

Controversies surrounding Silvio Berlusconi

Berlusconi called Mussolini 'benign' and Hitler merely 'obsessed with power' on January 27, 2002 — International Holocaust Remembrance Day — standing beside a far-right coalition partner at a Milan memorial.

Cerberus

Greeks slipped honey cakes called meli into the mouths of their dead to bribe Cerberus at the underworld gate. Virgil's Aeneas carries one. The three-headed dog's middle head was considered the most dangerous.

Bugsy Siegel

Bugsy Siegel was reading the Los Angeles Times on a sofa in Beverly Hills when a rifle bullet blew his right eye out of its socket — landing four feet away on the floor.

The Disasters of War

Goya etched 82 plates of castrated soldiers, impaled civilians, and mass graves — then hid them. They weren't published until 1863, 35 years after his death. The plates still exist; one shows a man arranged like a broken doll.

Rhythm 0

Abramović placed 72 objects on a table — razor, wine, loaded pistol — and let strangers use them on her body for six hours. By hour three, someone had pressed the gun to her temple.

Angora rabbit

Ottoman sultans kept Angora rabbits as living luxury objects in the Topkapi Palace; their wool — harvested monthly by hand — was spun into garments reserved for imperial gift-giving.

We'wha

We'wha, a Zuni lhamana, spent six months in Washington in 1886 as a cultural ambassador, met President Grover Cleveland, and was celebrated as a weaver and diplomat — a third-gender role the Zuni had honored for generations.

Travis (chimpanzee)

Travis, a 200-pound chimpanzee raised as a human child in Stamford, Connecticut, mauled neighbor Charla Nash in 2009, leaving her without a face or hands. His owner called 911 mid-attack, saying: 'He's eating her.'

Best Party

Iceland's Best Party ran on free towels at city pools, a polar bear for the zoo, and a promise to be 'the best party' — and won Reykjavík's city hall in 2010 with 34.7% of the vote.