Use of X by Donald Trump

Trump's tweet activity from his first tweet in May 2009 until June 2020

Tupac Shakur (right) and The Notorious B.I.G. (left), the two main figures of the East Coast–West Coast hip-hop rivalry, prior to the conflict in 1993 in Los Angeles. The image was also used in the 2002 feature-length documentary film…

Use of X by Donald Trump

Trump tweeted 'South Africa' and 'large scale killing of farmers' after a Tucker Carlson segment in August 2018 — Pretoria summoned the U.S. ambassador within hours and land prices dropped before markets closed.

Balfour Declaration

Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote 67 words to Lord Rothschild in 1917, promising a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Those 67 words are still quoted in international courts more than a century later.

Philippine tarsier

The Philippine tarsier kills itself by slamming its skull into cage bars when stressed — a pocket-sized primate with eyes larger than its brain, martyring itself rather than enduring a hand.

Battle of Adwa

Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1895 with 17,700 troops marching in four columns so widely separated they could not support each other. The Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II annihilated them at Adwa with 100,000 soldiers — ending European colonialism's air of invincibility.

First Battle of Panipat

Babur deployed field artillery — new to the subcontinent — and routed a force nine times his size in a single afternoon. The Mughal Empire he founded that day would rule India for 300 years and build the Taj Mahal.

Golden eagle

At 150 mph in a stoop, the golden eagle strikes with talons exerting 750 psi — roughly the grip of a hydraulic press on a soda can. Civilizations from the Mongols to Rome named themselves by this bird.

East Coast–West Coast hip-hop rivalry

By 1997, two of rap's biggest figures were dead and their labels were in ruin. What began as promotional rivalry between Death Row and Bad Boy became geography that determined whose side you were on at gunpoint.

Dawn Brancheau

Dawn Brancheau, SeaWorld Orlando's most senior trainer, was pulled into the water and killed by orca Tilikum in front of an audience on February 24, 2010. She had 16 years of experience. The show had just ended.

Therizinosaurus

Therizinosaurus carried three-foot claws — longer than any animal's, ever recorded — and used them to rake leaves. The most terrifying hand on the planet belonged to a herbivore.