gnostek1 / 6The Kwakwaka'wakw continue the practice of potlatch. Illustrated here is Wawadit'la in Thunderbird Park , Victoria, B.C. , a big house built by Chief Mungo Martin in 1953. Wealthy, prominent hosts would have a Big House specifically for…
01Chiefs destroyed copper shields worth thousands of blankets to publicly shame competing chiefs.
02Canada criminalized the potlatch in 1885; practitioners faced up to six months in prison.
03Kwakwaka'wakw chief Dan Cranmer hosted an illegal 1921 potlatch; 45 attendees were arrested.
gnostek1 / 30Poster symbolizing the Ele Não Movement.
01In 2016, Bolsonaro told Senator Maria do Rosário she was 'not worth raping' during a floor dispute.
02As president in 2019, he praised Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra — the man who tortured do Rosário — by name.
03Ustra's torture methods included electric shocks; Bolsonaro called him 'a terror for the left' on national television.
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01The Dacian haul of 165 tonnes of gold was the largest single treasure seizure in Roman history.
02Trajan celebrated the victory with 123 days of games involving 11,000 animals and 10,000 gladiators.
03Dacia's king Decebalus cut his own throat rather than be paraded through Rome in Trajan's triumph.
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01Hani was killed with a Z88 pistol; Waluś had previously stalked Nelson Mandela as a potential target.
02A white Afrikaner neighbour, Retha Harmse, wrote down Waluś's number plate and called police within minutes.
03Waluś was finally paroled in 2023 after the Polish government intervened on his behalf for years.
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01Spencer's DNA conviction in 1994 was the first execution in U.S. history based solely on genetic evidence.
02His DNA simultaneously exonerated David Vasquez, who had falsely confessed and served five years for one murder.
03Spencer killed four women in the Richmond area between 1987 and 1988; he was called 'The Southside Strangler.'
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01Jones called the rehearsals 'White Nights'; followers who survived them believed they'd proved their loyalty.
02Congressman Leo Ryan was shot dead on a jungle airstrip hours before the mass suicide began.
03Cyanide was injected by syringe into children's mouths; adults who fled were shot by guards.
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01Individual blocks in the Cyclopean walls of Mycenae weigh up to 6 tonnes, stacked without mortar or binding agent.
02The Lion Gate lintel stone alone weighs approximately 20 tonnes and has remained in place since around 1250 BCE.
03Ancient Greeks named the construction style 'Cyclopean' because they believed only one-eyed giants could have lifted such stones.
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01Camarena's torture session lasted approximately 30 hours and was recorded in full on audiotape.
02His kidnappers used a doctor to keep him conscious through the ordeal — to extend it.
03The murder triggered Operation Leyenda, the largest DEA investigation ever conducted outside U.S. borders.
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01Malala was 15 when shot on October 9, 2012; she had been named to a Taliban hit list months earlier.
02She became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2014, at age 17, sharing it with Kailash Satyarthi.
03The Malala Fund she co-founded has invested in girls' education across twelve countries, including Afghanistan and Nigeria.