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Otto Dix served 4 years in WWI trenches and painted decomposing soldiers face-down in Flanders mud, maggots visible at the collar — the German government tried to buy and then quietly bury the canvas.

At 150 mph in a stoop, the golden eagle strikes with talons exerting 750 psi — roughly the grip of a hydraulic press on a soda can. Civilizations from the Mongols to Rome named themselves by this bird.

Hacked to death on his own farm by the men he employed, Eugene Terre'Blanche — South Africa's most feared white supremacist — died owing his workers two months' unpaid wages.

Bokassa's 1977 coronation cost $22 million — roughly one-third of the Central African Republic's annual GDP — including a diamond-encrusted crown, 6,000 bottles of Moët, and a throne shaped like a golden eagle.

Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1895 with 17,700 troops marching in four columns so widely separated they could not support each other. The Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II annihilated them at Adwa with 100,000 soldiers — ending European colonialism's air of invincibility.

In April 1892, Wyoming cattle barons hired twenty-five Texas gunmen and invaded Johnson County to assassinate two men on a hit list. They killed both, then got pinned down at the KC Ranch until the U.S. Army rescued them.

In 1221, Mongol forces killed an estimated 700,000 people at Merv in a single week — then cut the qanats that had kept Central Asia's largest city alive for centuries. The desert never gave it back.

He rose ten cubits off the ground — glowing gold — while his students watched twice. A Syrian Neoplatonist who made ritual magic philosophically respectable. What do you do with a man who keeps floating?

At the Battle of Plassey in 1757, Bengali commander Mir Jafar kept 45,000 soldiers idle while Clive's 3,000 British troops routed the Nawab. In exchange, he was installed as Nawab — and Britain began absorbing a continent.