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01By late 1936, roughly 70% of Catalonia's economy was under worker collectivization, not state control.
02Barcelona's tram network was collectivized and running within days of the anarchist takeover of the city.
03George Orwell arrived in December 1936 and wrote that it was the first time he had seen a town where the working class was in the saddle.

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01Barre ordered his artillery to shell the Hawiye neighborhoods of Mogadishu, killing an estimated 25,000 civilians in 1990–91.
02He had ruled Somalia for 21 years under a doctrine he called 'Scientific Socialism.'
03Somalia has had no functioning central government in the three decades since his flight — the longest such collapse of any modern state.

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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.

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01One of the 72 objects on the table was a loaded pistol; a stranger pressed it to her head.
02After six hours she walked toward the audience; they fled rather than face her gaze.
03Her clothes were cut from her body with scissors; a thorn was pressed into her throat.

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01The Asiatic Vespers of 88 BC killed an estimated 80,000 Romans and Italians in one coordinated dawn massacre.
02Mithridates reportedly ate small doses of every known poison daily to build immunity — a practice still called mithridatism.
03Rome fought him across three separate wars spanning 40 years; he survived all three until suicide in 63 BC.

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Red Bird – watercolour on paper

01Giuliani threatened to cut $7 million in city funding to the Brooklyn Museum over the painting.
02Ofili, a Catholic, said the dung was a reverent material — he used it in nearly every painting.
03A man entered the museum and smeared white paint over the canvas; he was arrested on-site.

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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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01The Mirdita uprising of 1921 was partially funded by Italy, which supplied rifles to exploit the feud grievance diplomatically.
02The clan's leader, Gjon Markagjoni, invoked Kanun law to justify the revolt — not the League of Nations or sovereignty.
03Serbian forces suppressed the uprising within months, but the Kanun grievances were never formally addressed.

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01The peregrine's stoop tops 240 mph — faster than a Formula 1 car at full race speed.
02Bony tubercles inside its nostrils slow incoming air so its lungs don't rupture at dive speed.
03Peregrine falcons hunt by diving from directly above, striking prey at angles that make escape geometrically impossible.

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