Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape

Fritz Haber , 1918

Chapel interior

Coat of arms of the Indies Company, with the reclining figure representing the Mississippi River taken from Law's Compagnie d'Occident , and the motto Florebo quocumque ferar taken from Louis XIV's East India Company

A procession in the San Callistus catacombs in Rome , painted by Alberto Pisa

Coat of arms of the Indies Company, with the reclining figure representing the Mississippi River taken from Law's Compagnie d'Occident , and the motto Florebo quocumque ferar taken from Louis XIV's East India Company

Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape

Recorded in 2005 on an Access Hollywood bus, Trump told host Billy Bush he grabs women 'by the pussy' without asking. Released eleven days before the election, it moved no needle.

Haber process

Fritz Haber synthesized nitrogen from air in 1909, feeding a billion people who could not otherwise exist. He then personally supervised the first chlorine gas attack at Ypres in 1915, killing thousands.

Project Ozma

In April 1960, Frank Drake aimed the 85-foot Green Bank telescope at Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani for six hours a day and heard nothing but a passing aircraft. He called it Project Ozma.

Sedlec Ossuary

A 13th-century Czech chapel holds chandeliers, coats of arms, and garland decorations made entirely from approximately 40,000 human skeletons. A woodcarver named František Rint signed his name in the corner — in bones.

John Law's Company

John Law sold France shares in the Louisiana Territory — mostly swamp — by convincing Paris that the Mississippi River ran through mountains of gold. Share prices rose 3,600% then fell to zero in 18 months.

Battle of the Crater

Union engineers dug 511 feet of tunnel, packed it with 8,000 pounds of powder, and blew a perfect 170-foot crater in Confederate lines — then sent infantry into the hole, where they were slaughtered like livestock in a pit.

Catacombs

Eight thousand mummified Palermitans — monks, lawyers, virgins, and infants — stand clothed in their own Sunday best along the corridors of a Capuchin monastery, sorted by profession and preserved since 1599.

Shahrbaraz

Shahrbaraz took Jerusalem in 614, hauled the True Cross to Ctesiphon, occupied Egypt — then murdered Emperor Khosrow II and ruled Persia for exactly 40 days before his own officers cut him down.

John Law's Company

John Law — a Scottish gambler who killed a man in a duel — convinced France to replace gold with paper backed by Louisiana swampland. Within two years, the word 'millionaire' was coined, then the crash.