Myra (painting)

The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection .

A mangle being used in a domestic science course during World War II

Plot of Weierstrass function over the interval [ − 2, 2]. Like some other fractals , the function exhibits self-similarity : every zoom (red circle) is similar to the global plot.

01Dworkin argued that the physical act of penetration occupied women's bodies in a way that mirrored property law — the woman becomes territory.
02She cited Tolstoy, Kobo Abe, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Bashevis Singer as literary witnesses to the same argument.
03Dworkin explicitly denied in interviews that she called all sex rape — but the book never made that denial; readers inferred it anyway.

Corybantian dance , the type of dance most likely danced on Gymnopedia festivals (image from Smith 's Dictionary of Antiquities ).

Marcus Harvey tiled child-handprints — made with a child's hand mold — across a vast canvas to form Myra Hindley's face. At the 1997 Sensation show, protesters twice attacked it with ink and eggs.

Jonestown

Jim Jones called it 'Revolutionary Suicide.' In a Guyanese jungle on November 18, 1978, 918 people died — 304 of them children — drinking cyanide-laced punch. The vats were prepared in advance.

Wow! signal

On August 15, 1977, a 72-second signal hit Big Ear radio telescope matching every alien-broadcast prediction. Astronomer Jerry Ehman circled it, wrote 'Wow!' — and it never came again.

Column of Marcus Aurelius

Erected after 193 AD, the Column of Marcus Aurelius depicts Romans burning German villages and beheading captives in a 190-metre spiral. It was so ignored that a hermit lived inside it for years.

Mangle (machine)

Two steel rollers squeezed laundry dry — and de-gloved hands at the wrist without stopping. Hospitals tracked the injuries by decade. The machine outlasted every safety campaign aimed at it.

Weierstrass function

Weierstrass wrote down a function in 1872 that draws a continuous curve — no gaps, no jumps — yet has no defined slope at any single point. Every zoom reveals more jaggedness. It shouldn't exist; it does.

Sugar glider

American mall vendors sell sugar gliders inside warm chest-pocket pouches for up to $500 each; isolated from colony mates, many self-mutilate — gnawing their own limbs down to bone.

Intercourse (book)

Andrea Dworkin's 1987 book 'Intercourse' argued that penetrative sex was, structurally, an act of ownership — not metaphorically but legally and physically. She spent 200 pages refusing to soften it.

Gymnopaedia

At the Gymnopaedia, naked Spartan youths danced in full summer sun on the Spartan agora for days — a festival honoring the dead of Thyreatis. The audience was the entire citizen body.