Houston Astros sign stealing scandal

Tupac Shakur (right) and The Notorious B.I.G. (left), the two main figures of the East Coast–West Coast hip-hop rivalry, prior to the conflict in 1993 in Los Angeles. The image was also used in the 2002 feature-length documentary film…

01Mary Daly held two doctorates in theology from the University of Fribourg and was a practicing Catholic when she published 'Beyond God the Father.'
02She argued that the sentence 'God is male' was not a statement about God but a statement about men — conferring divine authority on maleness itself.
03Boston College repeatedly tried to remove her; she taught women-only classes for 25 years until forced out in 1999.

Houston Astros sign stealing scandal

Houston Astros players watched a live camera feed of the catcher's signals and banged a trash can once or twice to tell batters what pitch was coming. They won the World Series doing it.

East Coast–West Coast hip-hop rivalry

By 1997, two of rap's biggest figures were dead and their labels were in ruin. What began as promotional rivalry between Death Row and Bad Boy became geography that determined whose side you were on at gunpoint.

Mountain Meadows Massacre

In 1857, Mormon militiamen and Paiute allies killed 120 Arkansas emigrants at Mountain Meadows, Utah — then blamed the Paiutes for twenty years. Only one man, John D. Lee, was ever executed, in 1877, shot at the site.

Berserker

Norse berserkers bit their shields and charged wearing bear pelts, impervious to iron. Saga accounts describe them foaming at the mouth; one killed 11 men before being pinned to the earth with a pitchfork.

Eisriesenwelt

Eisriesenwelt stretches 42 kilometres into the Austrian Alps — the world's largest accessible ice cave — where wind racing through the entrance freezes meltwater into towers and archways that survive year-round despite mild summers above.

Soweto uprising

On 16 June 1976, police opened fire on Soweto schoolchildren protesting compulsory Afrikaans instruction; Sam Nzima's photograph of the dying Hector Pieterson, carried by his sister, became the image that ended apartheid's silence.

Frederick Lorz

Fred Lorz crossed the 1904 Olympic marathon finish line first, accepted the gold medal from Alice Roosevelt, then admitted a car had driven him 11 of the 26 miles. He claimed it was a joke.

Beyond God the Father

Mary Daly's 1973 book made one syllogism its entire engine: if God is represented as male, maleness absorbs divinity itself. She called this not metaphor but the operating system of Western civilization. She was a Catholic theologian when she wrote it.

Half-Life (video game)

Half-Life never cuts away — no cutscene interrupts, no loading screen breaks the eye — placing Gordon Freeman inside every moment of Black Mesa's collapse in 1998, a continuous unbroken world that made every prior shooter feel like a slide show.