Favorinus

01Biko was transported naked, shackled, and comatose in the back of a Land Rover for 900 kilometres from Port Elizabeth to Pretoria.
02The district surgeon who examined Biko before the drive certified him fit for transport; that surgeon, Ivor Lang, was never criminally charged.
03Biko died at 30 years old, 26 days after his arrest; his death triggered an international arms embargo against South Africa.

01Downer's arrest came after she showed women their own cervices using a plastic speculum and a flashlight at a Los Angeles feminist health clinic.
02The prosecution's key exhibit was a jar of yogurt Downer had inserted into a woman's vagina as a yeast infection remedy — the 'yogurt case.'
03Her 1972 acquittal was cited in the founding documents of the women's self-help health movement, which spread to 50 cities within three years.

Born a hermaphrodite and a Gaul — Rome's two favorite insults — Favorinus became the Empire's sharpest debater, once beat Hadrian in argument, then wisely admitted he was wrong.