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After Rome collapsed, one man in Gaul kept issuing Roman coins and commanding Roman troops. Syagrius called himself 'King of the Romans' until Clovis hunted him down in 486 CE and severed his head.

The brigantine Mary Celeste was found in November 1872 sailing itself across the Atlantic — lifeboat gone, cargo of 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol intact, captain's log open to ten days prior.

Painted 36,000 years ago on a cave ceiling in northern Spain, the Altamira bison are so anatomically precise that 19th-century archaeologists accused the discoverer of fraud — they simply could not accept the ancients were capable.

He rose ten cubits off the ground — glowing gold — while his students watched twice. A Syrian Neoplatonist who made ritual magic philosophically respectable. What do you do with a man who keeps floating?

Abramović placed 72 objects on a table — razor, wine, loaded pistol — and let strangers use them on her body for six hours. By hour three, someone had pressed the gun to her temple.

Ronald Bracewell proposed in 1960 that the cheapest way to make contact is to park a probe in a target star's solar system and wait. Something may already be parked in ours.

In 1989, KKR bought RJR Nabisco — cigarettes and Oreos under one roof — for $25 billion in a feeding frenzy that spawned a bestselling book and a defining Wall Street myth. Who actually won?

Shahrbaraz took Jerusalem in 614, hauled the True Cross to Ctesiphon, occupied Egypt — then murdered Emperor Khosrow II and ruled Persia for exactly 40 days before his own officers cut him down.

Elderly Arab men, per medieval accounts, volunteered to subsist entirely on honey until their flesh was saturated — then, after death and 100 years of submersion in honey, their preserved corpses were sold as medicine.