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Gayle Rubin's 1984 essay 'Thinking Sex' placed consensual intergenerational sex on a 'charmed circle' diagram beside murder as objects of equal public hysteria. The map still burns.

When Sasanian forces breached Dura-Europos's walls around 256 CE, they buried the city in rubble — accidentally preserving inside the walls a synagogue, a Mithraeum, and the world's oldest surviving Christian church murals.

Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, waded into the surf at Cheviot Beach on December 17, 1967, and was never seen again. No body was ever recovered. Australia has no official cause of death on record.

Switch a lamp on and off — once per second, then half a second, then a quarter — completing infinite switches in two minutes flat. Mathematics gives no answer to whether it's on or off at minute two.

In March 1922, someone slaughtered six members of the Gruber family at Hinterkaifeck farm with a mattock. Neighbors found the livestock fed, the stove warm, and fresh food cooked — the killer had lived there for days.

238 CE burned through six emperors in one year. The last standing, an 80-year-old senator named Pupienus, was torn limb from limb by his own Praetorian Guard. Rome's throne was a death sentence that year.

Priests called Luperci slaughtered goats, cut strips from the hides, smeared sacrificial blood on two boys' faces, then ran naked through Rome striking every woman they passed. February. Every year.

Horst Mahler co-founded the Red Army Faction as a leftist anti-fascist lawyer, then transformed into a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi who greeted his 2009 prison sentence with a raised-arm Hitler salute in the courtroom.

Liu Ziye forced his own aunts into his imperial harem, declared them imperial concubines, then was stabbed to death by a palace servant at sixteen — his ministers had arranged the blade.