The Mahabharata online. No... the whole Mahabharata. Wow.

That weapon, quickly let off by the wielder of gandiva, blazed up with fierce flames like the all-destroying fire that appears at the end of the yuga. Similarly, the weapon that had been shot by Drona's son of fierce energy blazed up with terrible flames within a huge sphere of fire. Numerous peals of thunder were heard; thousands of meteors fell; and all living creatures became inspired with great dread. The entire welkin seemed to be filled with noise and assumed a terrible aspect with those flames of fire. The whole earth with her mountains and waters and trees, trembled. Then the two great rishis, Narada, who is the soul of every creature, and the grandsire of all the Bharata princes (Vyasa), beholding those two weapons scorching the three worlds, showed themselves there. The two rishis sought to pacify the two heroes Ashvatthama and Dhananjaya. Conversant with all duties and desirous of the welfare of all creatures, the two sages, possessed of great energy, stood in the midst of those two blazing weapons. Incapable of being overwhelmed by any force, those two illustrious rishis, placing themselves between the two weapons, stood like two blazing fires. Incapable of being checked by any creature endued with life, and adorned by the gods and danavas, they two acted in this way, neutralising the energy of the two weapons and doing good to all the world.
The two rishis said, "Those great car-warriors who have fallen in this battle were acquainted with diverse kinds of weapons. They, however, never shot such a weapon upon human beings. What act of rashness is this, ye heroes, that ye have done?"

Totally different subject: look to the right. It says:

　　タ
　　テ
ヨコ置き
　　き

The vertical text reads tate-oki, literally "arranged standing/vertically". The horizontal text reads yoko-oki, "arranged lying down/horizontally". They cross over at 置, which is the o of oki in both words.

The point of this ad is that the modular storage units being advertised can be arranged in any orthogonal way you please, but I just thought it was a neat visual demonstration of the two ways that Japanese text can be written, complete with the words for "vertical" (tate) and "horizontal" (yoko).

To get more specific, vertically written text is referred to as tate-gaki (縦書き), and horizontally written text is yoko-gaki (横書き). So if you need a neat visual mnemonic to remember any of this, just stare at this photo until it's burned in your brain.