Manichaean art

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The seal of Mani , the oldest known Manichaean art

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After Mani was flayed alive in 274 CE, his religion was banned across Persia and Rome — yet Manichaean monks smuggled illuminated manuscripts eastward for centuries until the texts surfaced in Dunhuang and Turfan.

Joel-Peter Witkin sources severed heads and amputated limbs from morgues, arranges them with live models into Caravaggio-style compositions, and photographs them. Mexican authorities gave him unclaimed cadavers. The prints sell for $10,000 each.

Cleopatra's 60 ships broke from the battle line and sailed for Egypt mid-engagement; Antony abandoned his flagship and 20,000 soldiers to follow her. The Roman world was decided in under an hour.

In July 1936, Barcelona's anarchists collectivized every barbershop, hotel, and tram line within weeks of Franco's coup. Waiters became co-owners. One journalist noted the menu prices hadn't changed, but the waiters walked differently.

Steve Schwarzman spent $3 million on his 60th birthday party — a Rod Stewart performance, a portrait of himself unveiled mid-room — then wrote a memoir advising readers to 'never do anything small.' The portrait still hangs at Blackstone.

In 2017, Hapilon's ISIS-aligned Abu Sayyaf faction and the Maute group held Marawi — a Philippine city of 200,000 — for 154 days. The military retook it building by building; most of the city was leveled in the process.

Fabio Casartelli died on Stage 15; the peloton rolled neutralized through Stage 16 the next morning, completing the course where he was killed — the race did not stop.

One baby Scipionyx, dead 113 million years ago, still holds its liver, intestines, and windpipe in anatomical position. It is the only dinosaur fossil with soft organs visible to the naked eye.

Hughes ran TWA, RKO, and the Nevada casino strip while injecting codeine every four hours — needles administered by aides under standing orders. By 1966 he had not left a hotel room in years. The empire ran anyway.