Harpe brothers

Cosmic flux versus particle energy at the top of Earth's atmosphere

Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (1884)

01Juba's general Saburra lured Curio's 10,000-man army into a valley in 49 BC; almost none escaped; Curio refused evacuation and died there.
02After Thapsus, Juba found no town willing to shelter him; he dined with the Roman commander Petreius, then the two men fought a duel to the death — Juba killed Petreius, then had a slave finish him.
03Years earlier, Caesar had proposed a bill to annex Numidia; Juba's hatred of Caesar was therefore partly personal legislative grudge.

Illustrative woodcut from the Latin edition of Columbus's letter printed in Basel in 1494.

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.