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Sulla posted the first proscription list in 82 BCE — names on white board in the Forum, bounty payable in silver — turning neighbors into executioners; Cicero's hands were nailed to the Rostra after his name appeared on the second.

When two neutron stars collide — GW170817, August 2017 — the explosion forged gold, platinum, and uranium in seconds. Every piece of jewelry on Earth traces back to a dead-star crash.

David Koresh declared himself the 'Final Sinful Messiah' and took 'spiritual wives' as young as twelve. He stockpiled 300 weapons inside Mount Carmel. The 51-day ATF siege ended in fire: 76 dead.

Micajah and Wiley Harpe killed at least 39 people across the frontier in the 1790s. Micajah once gutted his own infant, filled the cavity with stones, and sank the body in a river.

Anwar al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico, was placed on a presidential kill list, denied due process in U.S. courts, and killed by CIA drone in Yemen in September 2011. His lawyers were told they needed a license to represent him.

Javed Iqbal dissolved 100 boys in vats of acid in Lahore, then mailed a handwritten confession and a diary to police. He was sentenced to be killed by acid in the same vat — a sentence never carried out.

At −35 °C, 17,000 UN troops punched through 120,000 encircling Chinese soldiers over 17 days at Chosin Reservoir. Weapons froze mid-fire. Marines carried their dead rather than leave them. They called the retreat a march.

Thirty-nine people castrated themselves, donned identical black tracksuits and Nike Decades, and drank phenobarbital pudding to board the Hale-Bopp comet. Their bunk beds were made, bags packed, and hands folded across their chests.

Paris workers governed themselves for 72 days in 1871, burning the Tuileries Palace on their way out. The French army then shot an estimated 10,000 Communards in one week. Self-rule ended in a mass grave.