Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository

Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

The epitome of the Rohan Master's art is the " Lamentation of the Virgin " (f. 135, Pl. 57) from the Hours of the Cross. The grieving Virgin cannot be consoled by the Apostle John , who looks up in consternation at a saddened God.

The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository

$15 billion and 25 years tunneled a nuclear tomb 300 meters into Nevada rock — then Congress locked the door forever. 77,000 tons of radioactive waste still has nowhere to go.

Toys "R" Us

KKR, Vornado, and Bain Capital bought Toys 'R' Us in 2005 for $6.6 billion, immediately saddled it with $5 billion in debt, and spent 13 years watching 33,000 employees lose jobs as the debt ate the stores.

Book of Jonah

Jonah, swallowed by a fish, sulks when God spares the city he hated — and then weeps over a dead plant. Scholars now classify it as deliberate comic fiction targeting 5th-century Jewish nationalism.

Unit 731

Prisoners renamed 'maruta' — logs — were vivisected, frozen, and plague-bombed by Japan's Imperial Army in Manchuria. At least 3,000 died inside the compound. Their data was traded to the US for immunity.

Abu Sayyaf

In 2014, Isnilon Hapilon pledged bayah — formal oath of allegiance — to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, absorbing his Abu Sayyaf faction into the Islamic State's caliphate project. The pledge turned a kidnap-for-ransom gang into an ISIS province.

Rohan Hours

In the Rohan Hours, painted around 1420, a skeletal dying man lies naked on bare ground while God leans down from the sky to address him directly — a private conversation between a mortal and the divine, held across a page smaller than a hardback book.

Mitt Romney 2012 presidential campaign

At a $50,000-a-plate Boca Raton fundraiser, Romney told donors 47% of Americans 'believe they are victims' and pay no income tax. A bartender's phone captured every word.

Not Like Us

Kendrick Lamar accused Drake of grooming minors, named him a predator over a beat, then watched it hit number one — a Billboard chart-topper built on a criminal allegation.

Black Sox Scandal

Eight Chicago White Sox players threw the 1919 World Series for gamblers paying as little as $5,000 per player. A boy reportedly pleaded, 'Say it ain't so, Joe.' Shoeless Joe Jackson batted .375 during the fix.