Basil II

A typical crossbow

Memorial stone to the Ems dispatch in Bad Ems

The Anatomical Zodiac Man

01Daly grouped Chinese footbinding — which broke and rebound girls' feet from age 5, targeting a billion women over ten centuries — alongside 20th-century psychiatric treatment as equivalent tortures.
02Audre Lorde wrote Daly a letter in 1979 accusing her of using women of color only as victims in a white feminist framework; Daly did not respond for over a year.
03The book coined the term 'gynecide' and introduced 'hag,' 'crone,' and 'spinster' as reclaimed feminist honorifics still in academic use today.

He blinded 15,000 Bulgarian prisoners and sent them home in columns of a hundred, each led by one man with a single eye. Tsar Samuel collapsed and died of shock two days later.