Thermae

Roman public baths in Bath , England. The entire structure above the level of the pillar bases is a later reconstruction.

A tulip, known as "the Viceroy" ( viseroij ), displayed in the 1637 Dutch catalogue Verzameling van een Meenigte Tulipaanen ("Collection of a Crowd of Tulips"). Its bulb was offered for sale for between 3,000 and 4,200 guilders (florins)…

The Wilton Diptych, c. 1395 –1399. Each panel is 53 cm × 37 cm (21 in × 15 in) .

Romans scraped themselves clean not with soap but with a curved iron tool called a strigil — pulled across a stranger's oiled skin at the baths. The Baths of Caracalla held 1,600 bathers simultaneously in one building.

The Mountain Wreath

Montenegro's founding epic, written by Prince-Bishop Njegoš in 1847, celebrates the Christmas Eve slaughter of Muslims who had converted from Christianity — and is still taught in schools as national literature.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Link turns into a wolf in a world drained of color, guided by a sharp-tongued imp named Midna who rides his back and slowly, reluctantly, becomes his closest companion. The friendship arrives before you notice it.

Tulip mania

In 1637 Amsterdam, a single Semper Augustus tulip bulb sold for 10,000 guilders — enough to buy a canal house. Within three months the market collapsed; bulbs sold for the price of onions.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Developers photographed the actual Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to build every rusted corridor and overgrown courtyard — a ghost city recreated pixel by pixel, where a 30-kilometer real-world dead zone becomes a place of eerie, almost sacred stillness.

Wilton Diptych

Painted around 1395 for Richard II, the Wilton Diptych contains a tiny orb held by a painted angel — inside it, under magnification, a green island with a white castle appears: England, rendered smaller than a fingernail, seen as if from above the clouds.

Killing of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

Sixteen-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen eating dinner in Yemen, was killed by a drone two weeks after his father. The Obama administration later said it was a mistake. His grandfather asked why.

Pygmy slow loris

The pygmy slow loris is the only primate with a venomous bite — it licks a brachial gland on its arm, mixes toxin with saliva, and delivers a bite that can trigger anaphylactic shock.