The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is a set of Hindu and Jain temples in Madhya Pradesh, India, built mostly between 885 and 1000 CE by the Chandela dynasty. The site once had 85 temples, and about 25 survive. The temples are famous for their Nagara-style architecture and carved sculptures, which show scenes of daily life, gods and many other themes. The complex was overgrown by jungle until 1838, when a British engineer, T.S. Burt, reported on it. Later accounts record that Hindu pilgrims still came to the site, and the complex has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986. Two religions were honoured on the same site, a sign of tolerance among the region's Hindus and Jains.

In 1909 D. W. Griffith made a 14-minute film about a speculator who corners the wheat market and doubles the price of bread. A farmer sows his field while a 'Wheat King' gambles in the Chicago wheat pit; bakers raise the loaf from five cents to ten and the poor line up for bread. Griffith cut back and forth between the farm, the feast and the breadline, a technique called parallel editing, so audiences saw both ends of the economy at once. The film drew on Frank Norris's stories and on a real scheme: months earlier Chicago financier James Patten had cornered wheat, sent bread prices up and made about $5 million, roughly $185 million today.