The Dialectic of Sex

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Fritz Haber , 1918

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Shulamith Firestone's 1970 'Dialectic of Sex' argued that pregnancy itself — not law or culture — was the root of women's oppression, and only artificial wombs would fix it. She wrote it at 25 and spent her last decades in psychiatric institutions.

Sixteen-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen eating dinner in Yemen, was killed by a drone two weeks after his father. The Obama administration later said it was a mistake. His grandfather asked why.

Emperor Xian reigned for thirty-one years as Cao Cao's hostage. He watched Cao Cao personally drag Empress Fu from her chambers and execute her inside the palace walls in 214 CE.

A 13th-century Czech chapel holds chandeliers, coats of arms, and garland decorations made entirely from approximately 40,000 human skeletons. A woodcarver named František Rint signed his name in the corner — in bones.

Besieged in Syracuse, Agathocles loaded 14,000 men onto ships and invaded Carthage directly — turning his own siege inside out. He reputedly drank from enemy skulls and rose from a potter's wheel to a throne.

Custer split his 700-man 7th Cavalry into three columns at Little Bighorn, then led 210 men in a direct charge against a Lakota-Cheyenne encampment later estimated at 1,500–2,000 warriors. Not one of his column survived.

A five-ton circus elephant named Mary was hanged by a crane in Erwin, Tennessee, 1916 — the first chain snapped under her weight. She had killed her trainer the day before. A town decided justice required a railroad derrick.

Utahraptor weighed as much as a grizzly bear and carried a 9-inch hooked claw on each foot — the weapon that made Jurassic Park's Velociraptors look like the timid cousins they actually were.

Fritz Haber synthesized nitrogen from air in 1909, feeding a billion people who could not otherwise exist. He then personally supervised the first chlorine gas attack at Ypres in 1915, killing thousands.