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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01The Montagnana cello Ma left behind was crafted in Venice in 1733 and is valued at approximately $2.5 million.
02New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission located the cab within one hour using trip records.
03Ma has since performed in conflict zones and refugee camps as part of his Silk Road Ensemble, founded in 1998.

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01The bird-demon is seated on a commode; the souls it excretes fall visibly into a glass pit below.
02The Garden of Earthly Delights hung in the palace of Henry III of Nassau — a secular, not a church, commission.
03Bosch's iconography has no confirmed theological source; no contemporary written key to his symbols has ever been found.

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01Materazzi admitted he insulted Zidane's sister; Zidane said the words were 'very personal.'
02Zidane was voted Player of the Tournament despite the red card ending his final game.
03The headbutt was missed by referees but flagged by a fourth official watching a monitor.

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01WannaCry used EternalBlue, an NSA-developed exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
0280,000 NHS devices were hit; surgeries were cancelled and ambulances diverted across England.
03A 22-year-old named Marcus Hutchins halted the attack by registering a $10.69 domain name.

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Radium painters working in a factory

01Workers were told radium was safe; they painted it on their nails and teeth for fun after shifts.
02Grace Fryer's jaw had to be removed in pieces — bone had turned to soft, glowing pulp.
03The 1928 lawsuit by five 'Radium Girls' directly shaped the first U.S. occupational disease labor laws.

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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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Chapel interior

01The bone chandelier contains at least one of every bone in the human body.
02František Rint bleached and wired 40,000 skeletons after Black Death mass graves were exhumed in 1278.
03The Schwarzenberg coat of arms, rendered in bone, includes a sculpted raven pecking a severed eye socket.

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01Amin's full self-declared title ran to 43 words, including 'Last King of Scotland' and 'CBE.'
02His regime expelled all 60,000 Asians from Uganda in 90 days in 1972, collapsing the economy.
03He ruled for eight years before a Tanzanian military invasion removed him in April 1979.

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