Political lesbianism

The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection .

Red Bird – watercolour on paper

Heracles , wearing his characteristic lion-skin, club in right hand, leash in left, presenting a three-headed Cerberus, snakes coiling from his snouts, necks and front paws, to a frightened Eurystheus hiding in a giant pot. Caeretan hydria…

A map of Belgic Gaul in the first century BC, showing the relative position of the Nervii

01The Nervii reportedly forbade wine and merchants among themselves to keep their warriors undiluted by Roman goods or influence.
02Caesar describes grabbing a shield from an anonymous soldier and entering the front rank personally — he did not know the man's name.
03The Nervii, once 60,000 warriors strong by Caesar's count, were reduced to 500 fighting men and three chieftains after the battle at the Sabis.

Political lesbianism

A 1979 British pamphlet by Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group declared that any woman who slept with men was collaborating with the enemy — not a metaphor, a direct accusation. It split the UK women's liberation movement into factions that never healed.

Houston Astros sign stealing scandal

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.

Lupercalia

Each February, priests called Luperci ran Rome's streets half-naked, slapping women with strips of goatskin freshly cut from a just-sacrificed animal — the whip's touch was believed to cure barrenness.

Wow! signal

On August 15, 1977, a 72-second signal hit Big Ear radio telescope matching every alien-broadcast prediction. Astronomer Jerry Ehman circled it, wrote 'Wow!' — and it never came again.

Chris Ofili

Ofili painted the Virgin Mary with a clump of elephant dung as one breast and pornographic collage for her halo. Mayor Giuliani called it 'disgusting' and tried to evict the Brooklyn Museum in 1999.

Tsutomu Miyazaki

Tsutomu Miyazaki killed four girls aged four to seven near Tokyo between 1988 and 1989, ate one victim's hands, and mailed her charred bones to her family in a box with photographs. Police found 5,763 videotapes stacked in his room.

Mario Kart Wii

Nintendo packed a cheap plastic steering wheel into every Mario Kart Wii box, and 37 million families snapped it around their Wii remotes — suddenly the living room floor was a race circuit and everyone had a wheel.

Cerberus

Greeks slipped honey cakes called meli into the mouths of their dead to bribe Cerberus at the underworld gate. Virgil's Aeneas carries one. The three-headed dog's middle head was considered the most dangerous.

Nervii

The Nervii attacked so fast that Roman soldiers were still tying their helmet straps when the spears hit. Caesar snatched a shield from a passing soldier and stood in the front line himself — without a helmet.