Aleister Crowley bibliography

The Severan Tondo , c. 199 AD tondo of the Severan family , with portraits of Septimius Severus , Julia Domna , and their sons Caracalla and Geta . The face of one of Severus' and Julia's sons has been erased; it may be Geta's, as a result…

"Queens" of Mysore : left, Krishnaraja Wadiyar III 's first wife, Devajammani has a discoloration around the mouth, thought to be due to the blowing of variolation dust in the nose ("nasal insufflation"). Right, his second wife shows the…

Logo of 1Malaysia Development Berhad

Enemies being killed and roasted in South America – engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592)

Aleister Crowley bibliography

Crowley's notebooks — columns of dosage, date, and ritual outcome — are a thirty-year pharmacological ledger wrapped in magical grammar. Heroin in grains, hashish in grams, visions rated. Science or scripture?

Damnatio memoriae

Rome could condemn a man to nonexistence: his face chiseled off statues, his name gouged from inscriptions, his coins melted down. Domitian's name was erased from 31 separate official monuments after his death.

Variolation

Ottoman physicians rubbed smallpox scabs into children's skin scratches centuries before Jenner's vaccine. The practice cut mortality from roughly 30% to under 2%, yet Europe called it barbarism until the death tolls reversed.

1MDB scandal

Malaysia's 1MDB sovereign wealth fund — created to build schools and hospitals — bought a $250 million superyacht, a Picasso, and financed The Wolf of Wall Street. The fund lost $4.5 billion. The prime minister who authorized it won an election first.

Dura-Europos

When Sasanian forces breached Dura-Europos's walls around 256 CE, they buried the city in rubble — accidentally preserving inside the walls a synagogue, a Mithraeum, and the world's oldest surviving Christian church murals.

Presidency of Rodrigo Duterte

A sitting president joked, live on stage, that he should have 'gone first' before soldiers raped and killed Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill in 1989. The crowd laughed. He won the election anyway.

Human cannibalism

The Fore people of Papua New Guinea ate their dead as mourning rite; it transmitted kuru, a fatal prion disease, killing thousands. Women and children died faster — they ate the brain.

Samuel Doe

Master Sergeant Samuel Doe — ninth-grade dropout — overthrew Liberia's government in 1980, then had 13 cabinet ministers stripped, tied to telephone poles on a Monrovia beach, and shot before a crowd.

Gloria Anzaldúa

Anzaldúa theorized the US–Mexico border not as a line but a wound that produces a new consciousness — mestiza, queer, split-tongued. She wrote 'Borderlands' in 1987 in poverty, on a used typewriter.