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Angela Davis, in 'Women, Race & Class' (1981), argued that rape of Black women by white men during slavery was a calculated instrument of racial terror — and that the law's blindness to it was the policy.

Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam ran Ethiopia's Red Terror from 1977 to 1978, killing between 30,000 and 750,000 citizens; families of the executed were billed for the bullets used in the executions.

Microsoft's rated-E garden game lets piñatas reproduce, eat each other's eggs, and drive rival species to permanent in-game extinction — all with candy gore. It was marketed exclusively at children.

One descent on the Col de Portet d'Aspet killed Casartelli and a stone memorial marks the exact concrete block that ended him. Riders cross it every Tour, sometimes placing a hand on the monument.

Britain's 'impregnable' Singapore fortress had fifteen-inch coastal guns pointed permanently seaward. Japan's 30,000 troops arrived on bicycles from the Malayan jungle to the north and accepted the surrender of 80,000 Allied soldiers.

Houston Astros players watched a live camera feed of the catcher's signals and banged a trash can once or twice to tell batters what pitch was coming. They won the World Series doing it.

Billy Tipton toured American jazz circuits for decades, married three times, and adopted three sons — his birth sex unknown to his family until paramedics arrived at his death in 1989, and the secret he kept became the subject of a biography.

Gayle Rubin's 1984 essay 'Thinking Sex' placed consensual intergenerational sex on a 'charmed circle' diagram beside murder as objects of equal public hysteria. The map still burns.

Ottoman sultans kept Angora rabbits as living luxury objects in the Topkapi Palace; their wool — harvested monthly by hand — was spun into garments reserved for imperial gift-giving.