Petya (malware family)

Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights , oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in) , Museo del Prado , Madrid

A procession in the San Callistus catacombs in Rome , painted by Alberto Pisa

The National Ignition Facility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Anti-immigrant protesters in Calais hold a sign in French reading "Diversity is a code word for white genocide", above a banner calling for remigration (8 November 2015).

Petya (malware family)

NotPetya wore a ransomware mask but had no decryption key — ever. It cost Maersk $300 million, wiped Merck's drug production, and erased FedEx's European arm in hours.

Jonestown

276 children died at Jonestown. The vat of Flavor Aid — not Kool-Aid — was found still full. Cyanide reached the bloodstream in under five minutes. Aerial photos showed bodies arranged in concentric rings.

Surena

Surena annihilated seven Roman legions at Carrhae in 53 BC — 20,000 dead, 10,000 captured — then was executed by the Parthian king within the year, fame deemed more dangerous than Rome itself.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

In Bosch's Hell panel, a man is crucified on the strings of a giant harp, arrows through both thighs. Painted around 1500, it hangs in the Prado — and no one is sure what any of it means.

Catacombs

Eight thousand mummified Palermitans — monks, lawyers, virgins, and infants — stand clothed in their own Sunday best along the corridors of a Capuchin monastery, sorted by profession and preserved since 1599.

National Ignition Facility

192 lasers converge on a target smaller than a pencil eraser, briefly creating temperatures hotter than the sun's core. In 2022, NIF finally got more energy out than it put in.

White genocide conspiracy theory

A claim of white genocide in South Africa — built on disputed murder statistics from Afrikaner advocacy sites — migrated from Boer forums to Brenton Tarrant's manifesto, cited by name before the Christchurch massacre.

Killing of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

Sixteen-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen eating dinner in Yemen, was killed by a drone two weeks after his father. The Obama administration later said it was a mistake. His grandfather asked why.

Tim Donaghy

NBA referee Tim Donaghy bet on games he personally officiated from 2005 to 2007, adjusting foul calls to swing point spreads. He pled guilty to two federal felony counts and served 15 months.