Against Our Will

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Illustration of a Hungarian Hajduk, from an 1703 book from Bavaria.

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Susan Brownmiller's 'Against Our Will' (1975) was the first book-length argument that rape was a political instrument, not a crime of passion — documented across war, slavery, marriage, and police precincts. It sold over a million copies.

Byzantine warships sprayed Greek fire through bronze siphons — it burned on water and could not be extinguished. The formula died with the empire in 1453, and no chemist has fully reconstructed it since.

Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis compiled a typed hit list of senior ANC figures and handed it to Janusz Waluś — Chris Hani's name was on page one. The list also included Nelson Mandela.

Hajduks were hunted outlaws turned folk saints — men who fled Ottoman tax collectors into the mountains and were later immortalized in epic verse. The same raid that burned a village made a ballad by spring.

Switch a lamp on and off — once per second, then half a second, then a quarter — completing infinite switches in two minutes flat. Mathematics gives no answer to whether it's on or off at minute two.

Crowley published occult texts, ran secret orders, and maintained a heroin habit measured in grains-per-day in his personal ledgers — for thirty years. His mages followed him into addiction. Who was the ritual for?

The Bender family of Cherryvale, Kansas ran a roadside inn with a canvas curtain dividing the table from the back. Guests seated against it were hammer-struck through the cloth; at least eleven bodies were found in the orchard.

Randy 'Duke' Cunningham kept a handwritten 'bribe menu' on a sheet of congressional letterhead: a sliding scale of contract values against requested yacht upgrades, antique furniture, and cash — the most literal corruption document in U.S. congressional history.

To swing a 1984 county election in Oregon, Rajneeshees poured salmonella cultures onto ten restaurant salad bars, sickening 751 people — the first bioterror attack on U.S. soil. The plot was conceived by Ma Anand Sheela.