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Albert von Le Coq dismantled Kizil's painted cave walls with bread knives and shipped the slabs to Berlin in wooden crates — where Allied bombs destroyed most of them in 1943.

Liu Ziye forced his own aunts into his imperial harem, declared them imperial concubines, then was stabbed to death by a palace servant at sixteen — his ministers had arranged the blade.

Eight Chicago White Sox players were paid by gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series — then played the following full season undetected. Shoeless Joe Jackson, who batted .375 in the fixed series, was banned for life.

Idi Amin awarded himself the Conqueror of the British Empire medal, the Victoria Cross, and a 'Last King of Scotland' title — all self-issued — while between 100,000 and 500,000 Ugandans died under his rule.

Garry Turner stretched his stomach skin 15.8 cm — nearly six inches — away from his body in a tent-like pull, caused by Ehlers-Danlos syndrome dissolving the collagen that holds skin down.

Anzaldúa theorized the US–Mexico border not as a line but a wound that produces a new consciousness — mestiza, queer, split-tongued. She wrote 'Borderlands' in 1987 in poverty, on a used typewriter.

Prime Minister Cánovas del Castillo received a bouquet of flowers from Cecilio Domínguez — and a bullet. The pistol hidden among the stems ended Spain's 1897 summer. Who taught an anarchist the etiquette of assassination?

Nine hikers cut their tent from the inside and ran barefoot into −30°C Siberian night. Two corpses had crushed chests matching a car-crash impact. No attacker ever found.

Hector Pieterson was thirteen when a bullet dropped him in Soweto on June 16, 1976. Sam Nzima's photograph — Hector carried by a screaming Mbuyisa Makhubo — ran worldwide and became the image of apartheid. Makhubo disappeared.