Cacareco

The skull of Cacareco at São Paulo Zoo

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).

Cacareco, a four-year-old female rhinoceros at the São Paulo zoo, received 100,000 votes in the 1959 city council election — more than any human candidate — apparently written in by voters exhausted with corruption.

Sicilian Expedition

Athens voted in 415 BC to conquer Sicily — 38,000 men, 200 ships — based on flawed intelligence and civilian fever. Every ship and every soldier was lost; the expedition ended the Athenian Empire.

Voltaire

Voltaire scrawled 'absurd' across his personal Bible hundreds of times, then predicted Christianity would be extinct within a century. His Geneva house became a Bible Society depot 50 years after his death.

Cyrus the Younger

Cyrus the Younger paid 10,000 Greek soldiers to march 1,500 miles to overthrow his brother Artaxerxes II — then personally charged the royal bodyguard, took a javelin to the eye socket, and died instantly.

Alberobello

Apulian peasants built conical limestone roofs with no mortar so they could be legally dismantled within hours when tax inspectors approached. The roofs reassembled the same day. The Bourbon inspectors kept coming.

Bosch (company)

Robert Bosch died in 1942 leaving 94% of his company to a charitable foundation, structuring the gift so that no heir, buyer, or market could ever dissolve what he built. The foundation still holds it today.

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.

Roanoke Colony

117 colonists settled Roanoke Island in 1587. Governor John White left for supplies and returned three years later to find the word CROATOAN carved into a post and every person gone — no graves, no blood.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

When New York's legislature sided against him in an 1867 rail dispute, Cornelius Vanderbilt cut all rail connections into Manhattan in January — mid-winter — strangling the city's supply lines until Albany capitulated.