Luis Ocaña

Illustration of a Hungarian Hajduk, from an 1703 book from Bavaria.

Anti-immigrant protesters in Calais hold a sign in French reading "Diversity is a code word for white genocide", above a banner calling for remigration (8 November 2015).

Ocaña led Eddy Merckx by 9 minutes — the greatest gap in Tour history — when a Pyrenean thunderstorm dissolved the road under him in 1971. He crashed; Merckx refused to wear yellow the next day.

Hit 'Em Up

On a 1996 Death Row single, Tupac claimed to have slept with Faith Evans — Biggie's wife — while Biggie was alive. He said it over his own label's production, for all radio to hear.

Susan Brownmiller

Susan Brownmiller wrote that rape was not aberrant male violence but a 'conscious process of intimidation' — meaning every man who never raped still benefited from the fear every rapist produced. The indictment had no exceptions.

Hajduk

Hajduks were hunted outlaws turned folk saints — men who fled Ottoman tax collectors into the mountains and were later immortalized in epic verse. The same raid that burned a village made a ballad by spring.

Super Mario Galaxy

Mario sprints across planets the size of houses, gravity bending so he runs along their undersides, while a 70-piece orchestra plays music that swells as stars come into view. A platformer that accidentally felt like awe.

Coronation of Bokassa I and Catherine

Bokassa's 1977 coronation cost $22 million — roughly one-third of the Central African Republic's annual GDP — including a diamond-encrusted crown, 6,000 bottles of Moët, and a throne shaped like a golden eagle.

Otto Dix

Otto Dix served 4 years in WWI trenches and painted decomposing soldiers face-down in Flanders mud, maggots visible at the collar — the German government tried to buy and then quietly bury the canvas.

Greek fire

Byzantine warships sprayed Greek fire through bronze siphons — it burned on water and could not be extinguished. The formula died with the empire in 1453, and no chemist has fully reconstructed it since.

White genocide conspiracy theory

A claim of white genocide in South Africa — built on disputed murder statistics from Afrikaner advocacy sites — migrated from Boer forums to Brenton Tarrant's manifesto, cited by name before the Christchurch massacre.