Executive Order 9066

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Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 — while Nisei soldiers were already in uniform dying in Europe. The order bore no explicit racial language; it didn't need to.

Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis compiled a typed hit list of senior ANC figures and handed it to Janusz Waluś — Chris Hani's name was on page one. The list also included Nelson Mandela.

The Mirdita, a highland Catholic Albanian clan, rose against the Serbian army in 1921 — not over nationalism or religion, but because Serbian officers had violated blood-feud protocols that predated any state they recognized.

The $150 billion ISS circles Earth every 92 minutes, yet astronauts shower using only a damp cloth — hygiene solved with wet wipes while floating 400 km above every ocean they cannot touch.

In July 1936, Barcelona's anarchists collectivized every barbershop, hotel, and tram line within weeks of Franco's coup. Waiters became co-owners. One journalist noted the menu prices hadn't changed, but the waiters walked differently.

Korea was the proving ground where napalm became a mass-casualty weapon. The U.S. dropped 32,357 tons on the peninsula. Villages burned at 1,000 °C. The formula perfected there was still in use in Vietnam.

The swordfish heats its own eyes and brain to 28°C above the surrounding ocean, running a biological furnace to keep vision razor-sharp at depth and speed. It is a warm-eyed predator in a cold, dark sea.

Byzantine warships sprayed Greek fire through bronze siphons — it burned on water and could not be extinguished. The formula died with the empire in 1453, and no chemist has fully reconstructed it since.

Maurice Ward, a hairdresser from Yorkshire, coated an egg in Starlite and held a blowtorch to it for five minutes — the egg stayed raw inside. He took its formula to his grave in 2011.