Presidency of Rodrigo Duterte

gnostek

1 / 61

gnostek

1 / 3

gnostek

gnostek

1 / 4

gnostek

1 / 5

gnostek

1 / 11

An electric steam iron

gnostek

1 / 5

gnostek

1 / 26

gnostek

1 / 14

Flick ↓ for more

A sitting president joked, live on stage, that he should have 'gone first' before soldiers raped and killed Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill in 1989. The crowd laughed. He won the election anyway.

Gothic cavalry obliterated two-thirds of the Eastern Roman army in a single afternoon, killing Emperor Valens — whose body was never recovered. The battle proved infantry alone could not hold the empire. Rome began its long unraveling.

When two neutron stars collide — GW170817, August 2017 — the explosion forged gold, platinum, and uranium in seconds. Every piece of jewelry on Earth traces back to a dead-star crash.

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.

Robert Hanssen attended Mass every morning, carried a rosary, and sold the FBI's deepest secrets to Moscow for 22 years. He betrayed at least three Soviet double agents who were subsequently executed.

Named from the Old English 'sæd,' meaning solid — not sorrowful — the sad iron was a 6-pound cast-iron slab heated directly on the stove. Women rotated three irons to maintain one usable temperature.

The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded $6 million in free food as Patty Hearst's ransom — then she picked up a rifle, renamed herself 'Tania,' and robbed a San Francisco bank with them 10 weeks later.

In 305 AD, Diocletian became the first Roman emperor to voluntarily abdicate — then rejected offers to return and spent his final years at his Split palace growing cabbages, apparently content.

Sitting Vice President Spiro Agnew received cash in small envelopes — handed directly to him inside the White House — while simultaneously prosecuting law-and-order rhetoric on national television. He resigned October 10, 1973, pleading no contest.