gnostek1 / 3Paul Nakadate, one of the seven Fair Play leaders, with his wife and son in their barracks apartment in Heart Mountain (NARA)
01The Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee organized resistance from inside a Wyoming internment camp in 1944.
0263 resisters were convicted of draft evasion and sentenced to federal prison terms of up to three years.
03The JACL publicly condemned the resisters as traitors; the government called them cowards.
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01The pronghorn's top speed of 55 mph is second only to the cheetah among all land animals.
02Its oversized trachea and lungs deliver oxygen at a rate far beyond what any current North American predator demands.
03The American cheetah, its evolutionary co-author, vanished with the Pleistocene megafauna around 10,000 BCE.
gnostek1 / 33Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid
01The Minoan bull-leaping fresco at Knossos, c. 1450 BC, shows both male and female athletes mid-vault.
02The Spanish bullfight's three-act structure — tercio de varas, banderillas, faena — mirrors ancient sacrificial killing sequences.
03Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' documented 1,200 bulls killed in a single Madrid season in the 1920s.
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01The surrender ceremony was held at Ramna Race Course, Dhaka, before a crowd of thousands.
02Lieutenant General A.A.K. Niazi signed for Pakistan; his army had held East Pakistan for nine months.
0393,000 soldiers surrendered — more than the German capitulation at Stalingrad in 1943.
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01Casartelli won gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics; he died in the Tour just three years later.
02He struck a concrete drainage block on the descent; the impact fractured his skull fatally.
03His Motorola teammates rode stage 16 as a memorial procession, refusing to race, letting Lance Armstrong cross alone.
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01South Korean authorities killed an estimated 60,000–100,000 of their own civilians in weeks during summer 1950.
02Victims included Bodo League members — a government-run 're-education' program whose enrollees were then deemed threats.
03The South Korean government denied the massacres for over 50 years; a truth commission confirmed them in 2008.
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01The Asiatic Vespers of 88 BC killed an estimated 80,000 Romans and Italians in one coordinated dawn massacre.
02Mithridates reportedly ate small doses of every known poison daily to build immunity — a practice still called mithridatism.
03Rome fought him across three separate wars spanning 40 years; he survived all three until suicide in 63 BC.
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01Edison Manufacturing Company filmed Topsy's electrocution; the film, 'Electrocuting an Elephant,' was commercially distributed that same year.
02Topsy killed three men in three years, including an abusive trainer who fed her a lit cigarette.
03She was given cyanide-laced carrots, then 6,600 volts — organizers had originally planned to hang her publicly.
gnostek1 / 6Zimbabwean banknotes ranging from 10 dollars to 100 billion dollars printed within a one-year period. The magnitude of the currency scalars signifies the extent of the hyperinflation.
01The Z$100 trillion note, issued January 2009, was worth approximately US$0.40 on the day it was printed.
02At peak hyperinflation in November 2008, month-on-month inflation hit 79,600,000,000% — prices doubled every 24 hours.
03Zimbabwe officially abandoned its dollar in April 2009; citizens were allowed to exchange Z$35 quadrillion for US$1.