Kargil War

Takifugu in a tank

Heracles , wearing his characteristic lion-skin, club in right hand, leash in left, presenting a three-headed Cerberus, snakes coiling from his snouts, necks and front paws, to a frightened Eurystheus hiding in a giant pot. Caeretan hydria…

01Chris Mahlangu and a fifteen-year-old accomplice beat and hacked Terre'Blanche to death in his bedroom over an unpaid wage of approximately R800.
02Terre'Blanche had previously been convicted of assaulting a Black petrol-station attendant; he served part of a jail sentence in the 1990s.
03The AWB leader who once rode white horses through rallies was found face-down on his bed, killed by men he had allegedly refused to pay.

Pakistani soldiers secretly occupied Indian peaks above 15,000 feet in early 1999. Pakistan's army chief denied knowledge; the operation's planning notebooks were later found to bear General Pervez Musharraf's own handwriting.

Jean van de Velde (golfer)

Jean Van de Velde stood on the 18th hole of the 1999 Open Championship needing only a double bogey to win, then waded barefoot into the Barry Burn, made a seven, and lost in a playoff.

Fugu

A single fugu pufferfish carries tetrodotoxin enough to kill 30 adults; there is no antidote. Japanese chefs must train three years and pass a written and practical exam — the failure rate exceeds 35%.

Cassini–Huygens

After 13 years orbiting Saturn, the $3.9 billion Cassini was steered into the planet's atmosphere on purpose — a controlled suicide to avoid contaminating moons that might harbor life.

Cerberus

Greeks slipped honey cakes called meli into the mouths of their dead to bribe Cerberus at the underworld gate. Virgil's Aeneas carries one. The three-headed dog's middle head was considered the most dangerous.

Michel Foucault

Foucault spent his last years cruising San Francisco bathhouses while dying of AIDS — a fact he reportedly knew. The man who said power invented sexuality lived the argument to its end.

Eugène Terre'Blanche

Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugène Terre'Blanche — neo-Nazi, horseman, poet — was hacked to death with a panga by a farmworker named Chris Mahlangu in 2010, reportedly over a wage dispute of less than $50.

Hamilcar Barca

Hamilcar Barca made his nine-year-old son Hannibal swear eternal war on Rome over a sacrificial animal's bleeding entrails — then spent the rest of his life building Spain into a weapon for that oath.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

In 'Death from Above,' the player inhabits a soldier already struck by a nuclear blast, dragging themselves across rubble, unable to stand. No HUD. No objective marker. The level ends when the character dies — and it always ends that way.