Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II — gnostek

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01The memorial's bronze cranes are physically entangled in cast barbed wire — a Japanese symbol of longevity caught mid-flight.
02It stands on Louisiana Avenue NW, fewer than two blocks from the U.S. Capitol building.
03The granite wall names over 800 Japanese Americans killed in action during World War II.

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01Pompey's head was cut off by Lucius Septimius, a Roman soldier he had once commanded — stabbed from behind in a small boat.
02Caesar and Pompey's alliance was cemented by Pompey marrying Caesar's daughter Julia; she died in 54 BC, and the civil war began five years later.
03Caesar was handed Pompey's signet ring — bearing the image of a lion holding a sword — and wept in front of witnesses.

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01The 13-pound, 3.5-foot tamping iron entered below Gage's left eye and exited through the top of his skull.
02Before the accident, Gage was a reliable foreman; after, he was profane, impulsive, and unable to keep any job.
03Gage kept the rod for the rest of his life; both he and the iron are now at Harvard Medical School.

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Artist's conception of a powerful magnetar in a star cluster

01A magnetar's magnetic field reaches 10^15 gauss — Earth's field is 0.5 gauss.
02SGR 1806-20 released more energy in 0.2 seconds on Dec 27, 2004 than the Sun emits in 250,000 years.
03At 1,000 km, the field would rewrite the quantum structure of your atoms before you felt anything.

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01Legions XVII, XVIII, and XIX were wiped out in 9 AD — those numbers were never reused by Rome.
02Germanic leader Arminius had served in the Roman army and used insider knowledge to spring the trap.
03Roman skulls with embedded nails were still being found at Kalkriese field in the 1980s excavations.

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01Turnspit dogs worked in pairs, alternating hour-long shifts inside the wheel to keep roasts turning evenly.
02A preserved Turnspit specimen named 'Whiskey' is still on display at Abergavenny Museum in Wales.
03Once kitchen machinery replaced them in the 1800s, the breed was considered useless and died out within decades.

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01Cho mailed a video manifesto to NBC News between his two attacks, a 2-hour window police did not close.
0232 people were killed; the Virginia Tech massacre remains the deadliest U.S. campus shooting on record.
03The shooting exposed a gap in federal law: Cho had been ruled mentally ill but passed background checks.

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01Agnew accepted at least $147,500 in bribes while serving as Vice President, some payments made inside the White House itself.
02He resigned via a single-sentence letter to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, bypassing Congress entirely.
03His plea deal made him the second Vice President in U.S. history to resign — the first was John C. Calhoun, in 1832.

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01Amphetamines and a half-empty brandy flask were found in Simpson's jersey pocket after his death.
02He collapsed twice within 500 metres of the summit; mechanics propped him upright and he pedalled on.
03A granite memorial on Mont Ventoux still receives cycling caps, bidons, and coins left by passing riders.

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