Curated playlist
Incidents of cannibalism
- Insurrection of 10 August 1792A Prussian and Austrian commander's threat meant to protect King Louis XVI helped destroy him.
- FamineHolland fed itself through the 1590s while famine swept Western Europe.
- Japanese war crimesEmperor Hirohito's own brother denounced Japanese aggression to troops in China.
- AtreusAtreus was a king of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. His two sons are the ones remembered for sailing against Troy. Yet the legends told about their father are far…
- Jeffrey DahmerJeffrey Dahmer killed seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He became known as the Milwaukee Cannibal and the Milwaukee Monster. On the night of the 22nd of July 1991, police officers in a Milwaukee apartment pinned him to the…
- Cambodian genocideThe Cambodian genocide left behind places like Security Prison 21, where about 20,000 people were held and only seven adults came out alive. It was one of 196 prisons run by the Khmer Rouge, the communist movement led by Pol Pot. Prisoners…
- Sack of Rome (410)On August 24, 410 AD, the Visigoths entered Rome through the Salarian Gate and looted it for three days.
- TantalusIn the earliest named crime, Tantalus asked Zeus to let him live as the gods do.
- Siege of LeningradBesieged Leningrad played a symphony on the day Hitler had picked for a victory banquet. It was aimed at enemy lines.
- Battle of BailénAt Bailén in 1808, more than 20,000 French soldiers surrendered to a Spanish army.