1995 Tour de France

gnostek

1 / 3

gnostek

1 / 14

gnostek

1 / 4

gnostek

1 / 2

gnostek

1 / 6

gnostek

1 / 2

gnostek

gnostek

1 / 5

gnostek

1 / 12

Flick ↓ for more

Fabio Casartelli died on Stage 15; the peloton rolled neutralized through Stage 16 the next morning, completing the course where he was killed — the race did not stop.

When New York's legislature sided against him in an 1867 rail dispute, Cornelius Vanderbilt cut all rail connections into Manhattan in January — mid-winter — strangling the city's supply lines until Albany capitulated.

The Persian satrap Tissaphernes invited the Greek generals of the Ten Thousand to a peace feast in 401 BC, then seized and beheaded each one — leaving 10,000 soldiers leaderless in the Persian heartland.

NBA referee Tim Donaghy bet on games he was assigned to officiate, then fed picks to a mob-connected gambler. He called 3–4 more fouls per game when he had money on the line.

Vermin Supreme has campaigned in every U.S. presidential race since 1992 wearing a rubber boot as a hat, promising mandatory tooth-brushing laws and one free government pony for every American citizen.

Endless Ocean has no enemies, no fail state, and no score. A manta ray glides past. A whale appears in the deep distance and keeps swimming. Players have reported sitting still underwater for twenty minutes, just watching.

Over five days in the Vosges Mountains, the 442nd took 800 casualties to rescue 211 trapped Texans of the 'Lost Battalion' — nearly four Japanese American lives per white Texan saved.

On May 28, 1998, Pakistan detonated five nuclear warheads inside Koh Kambaran mountain; the granite turned white, then grey. A nation that had denied the bomb for two decades announced it in a single afternoon.

Nazis stripped a room of six tons of amber panels in 1941; eighty years of excavations, tunnels, and deathbed confessions have recovered nothing. Where do you hide a room?