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On September 16, 1992 — 'Black Wednesday' — George Soros shorted $10 billion in British pounds and pocketed $1 billion before London's close. The Bank of England spent $27 billion defending sterling and lost.

On June 10, 1951, nineteen-year-old Marine Corporal Charles Abrell threw himself onto an enemy grenade in Korea, absorbing the blast entirely. His squad lived. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously.

Jón Gnarr promised Reykjavík voters a polar bear, free bus rides for respectful teenagers, and a 'vegan option on Thursdays' — then served a full mayoral term, governing a city of 120,000 with genuine competence.

Bahram Chobin killed the Turkic khagan Shaba in single combat in 589, returned a hero — then, stripped of rank by a jealous emperor, raised a rebellion and took the Persian throne with no Arsacid drop of blood.

Fabio Casartelli died on Stage 15; the peloton rolled neutralized through Stage 16 the next morning, completing the course where he was killed — the race did not stop.

The Persian satrap Tissaphernes invited the Greek generals of the Ten Thousand to a peace feast in 401 BC, then seized and beheaded each one — leaving 10,000 soldiers leaderless in the Persian heartland.

Quantrill's Raiders rode into Lawrence, Kansas, at dawn on August 21, 1863, and spent ninety minutes killing 150 unarmed men and boys — then burned the town. Not one raider was killed.

Endless Ocean has no enemies, no fail state, and no score. A manta ray glides past. A whale appears in the deep distance and keeps swimming. Players have reported sitting still underwater for twenty minutes, just watching.

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.