Louis Dreyfus Company

The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection .

Heracles , wearing his characteristic lion-skin, club in right hand, leash in left, presenting a three-headed Cerberus, snakes coiling from his snouts, necks and front paws, to a frightened Eurystheus hiding in a giant pot. Caeretan hydria…

Louis Dreyfus Company

A single Alsatian farmer named Léopold Louis-Dreyfus founded a grain trading business in 1851. His descendants, working through a Luxembourg holding company, now move a sixth of the world's grain across every inhabited continent.

Wow! signal

On August 15, 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman circled a 72-second spike on a printout and wrote 'Wow!' beside it. It broadcast on the 1420 MHz hydrogen line. It has never come back.

Marko Miljanov

Marko Miljanov, a Montenegrin clan chief who personally led feud raids and tribal wars, retired to write a 1901 treatise on heroism and humanity — a book still assigned in Montenegrin schools.

Kiki Camarena

No ransom note ever arrived. DEA agent Kiki Camarena was taken off a Guadalajara street in broad daylight, kept alive for 30 hours of recorded torture, then buried in a ranch. The tape was the only demand.

Not Like Us

Kendrick Lamar accused Drake of grooming minors, named him a predator over a beat, then watched it hit number one — a Billboard chart-topper built on a criminal allegation.

Cerberus

Greeks slipped honey cakes called meli into the mouths of their dead to bribe Cerberus at the underworld gate. Virgil's Aeneas carries one. The three-headed dog's middle head was considered the most dangerous.

Anwar al-Awlaki

Anwar al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico, was placed on a presidential kill list, denied due process in U.S. courts, and killed by CIA drone in Yemen in September 2011. His lawyers were told they needed a license to represent him.

Kargil War

Pakistani soldiers secretly occupied Indian peaks above 15,000 feet in early 1999. Pakistan's army chief denied knowledge; the operation's planning notebooks were later found to bear General Pervez Musharraf's own handwriting.

A Bunny's Tale

Gloria Steinem spent weeks corseted into a Playboy Bunny costume in 1963, documenting cash skimmed from tips, mandatory internal medical exams, and spinal injuries from the required posture. The magazine called it a publicity stunt.