gnostek1 / 34Plate 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.
01Goya kept the 82 copper plates hidden during his lifetime; publication came 35 years after his 1828 death.
02Plate 39 shows a castrated male torso hung from a tree, limbs severed and rearranged — titled 'Great Deeds! Against the Dead!'
03He witnessed the Peninsular War atrocities firsthand near Madrid between 1808 and 1814, drawing from direct observation.
gnostek1 / 2A depiction of a hypothetical Dyson swarm surrounding a star
01Freeman Dyson proposed it in a 1960 paper; he suggested searching for anomalous infrared radiation, not radio signals.
02Building one would require dismantling Jupiter — 318 Earth-masses of raw material — entirely.
03Tabetha Boyajian's 'alien megastructure' star KIC 8462852 was briefly considered a partial Dyson sphere candidate.
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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.
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01Custer refused a Gatling gun battery before the march, fearing it would slow him down.
02His column of 210 men was wiped out in under an hour on June 25, 1876.
03Sitting Bull had predicted the exact outcome in a Sun Dance vision days before the battle.
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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'
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01Xolo dogs were ritually killed and buried with their owners to serve as underworld guides.
02Aztec belief held that the dog must cross nine distinct underworld rivers with the deceased.
03The breed's genetic lineage traces back over 3,500 years without significant human modification.
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01Dunant witnessed 40,000 casualties and organized local women using the cry 'Tutti fratelli' — all brothers.
02His 1862 memoir 'A Memory of Solferino' directly inspired the Geneva Convention of 1864.
03Dunant won the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 — and was living in a poorhouse charity ward when he got the news.
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01Trajan's Column stands 38 metres tall; its spiral frieze depicts 2,662 individual human figures.
02The column served as Trajan's tomb; his ashes were sealed in a golden urn in its base.
03It was cast from 29 hollow marble drums, each weighing roughly 32 tonnes, stacked with millimetre precision.
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01Crowley led the Ordo Templi Orientis and published its graded initiation rites while in active heroin dependency.
02He attempted a formal cure at a German sanatorium in 1930 and relapsed within weeks of discharge.
03Several of Crowley's closest disciples developed severe opiate addictions after following his 'magical' drug regimens.