6 TITANIC SURVIVORS WHO SHOULD HAVE DIED. THESE 9 NAZI ATROCITIES WILL MAKE YOU LOSE FAITH IN HUMANITY. 5 INSANE PLANS FOR FEEDING WEST BERLIN YOU WON’T BELIEVE ARE REAL. These are just some of the lists that the comic strip XKCD recently joked would result from retrofitting the twentieth century's most newsworthy events with modern, Internet-style headlines. Despite the growing derision of listicles exemplified by the comic, numbered lists—a venerable media format—have become one of the most ubiquitous ways to package content on the Web.

And on her head she wore a tyre of gold, Adornd with gemmes and owches wondrous fayre, Whose passing price vneath was to be told;

[…] Q. Anne’s father […] was the preferrer of the suite, & hated Sir THOMAS both for his religion, and for that he had not consented to his daughter’s marriage […]

(She points to her ID badge, situated on her ample poitrine, allowing my next unforgivable remark.) DC: Men don't have those.