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.
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01Mauna Kea is considered the piko — the navel — of the Hawaiian islands in indigenous cosmology.
02Protectors blockaded the access road in July 2019, halting construction for months without a single arrest initially.
03The TMT project subsequently explored La Palma in the Canary Islands as an alternative site.
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01Johnson's urine sample tested positive for stanozolol, an anabolic steroid; his world record of 9.79 was formally struck.
02His eyes were jaundiced yellow at the finish line — visible in broadcast footage, a physiological sign of steroid use.
03Of the eight finalists in that 100m race, six have since been linked to doping violations or investigations.
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01Batts's real name was William Bentvena; he was a made Gambino soldier, meaning his murder required Commission-level retribution.
02Henry Hill later testified the body was exhumed and moved to a second site in Pennsylvania after police searched the first.
03The shoe-shine insult was real — DeSimone had actually shined shoes as a teenager, making it a deliberate humiliation.
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01The hoard weighed over 5 kg of gold and 1.4 kg of silver — the largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found.
02A Latin biblical inscription on one gold strip reads: 'Rise up, O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed' — a war prayer.
03Every piece is military: sword pommels, helmet cheek-pieces, no domestic objects. Someone stripped the war-gear from the dead.
gnostek1 / 9A bile bear in a "crush cage" on Huizhou Farm, Huizhou , China
01An estimated 20,000 bears are currently held on bile farms in China and Vietnam, many in 'crush cages.'
02Bear bile contains ursodeoxycholic acid — a compound now synthesized cheaply in labs, making farming medically redundant.
03Moon bears on farms are often declawed and defanged at capture; some have been caged since cubhood.
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01Hughes's personal aides maintained a written codeine injection schedule; the intervals were never allowed to exceed four hours.
02He acquired Air West, Summa Corporation, and multiple Las Vegas casinos during the peak years of his dependency.
03By 1970 Hughes weighed under 100 pounds; his business lawyers conducted negotiations they could not confirm he authorized.
gnostek1 / 33Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid
01The Minoan bull-leaping fresco at Knossos, c. 1450 BC, shows both male and female athletes mid-vault.
02The Spanish bullfight's three-act structure — tercio de varas, banderillas, faena — mirrors ancient sacrificial killing sequences.
03Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' documented 1,200 bulls killed in a single Madrid season in the 1920s.
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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.