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01Lannes lingered for nine days after amputation; Napoleon visited and wept, holding his hand.
02Napoleon had personally crossed the Danube on a single bridge that broke under artillery — trapping his army.
03Austria lost 23,000 men; France lost 22,000 — a tactical draw that ended Napoleon's aura of invincibility.

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01At Awazu in 1184, Tomoe Gozen decapitated enemy commander Onda no Moroshige in open battle.
02Her lover Minamoto no Yoshinaka commanded her to flee before dying, unwilling to die beside a woman.
03She appears in the Heike Monogatari described as 'a warrior worth a thousand' — then disappears entirely.

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01The photograph is called 'Piss Christ' and was printed at 60 × 40 inches.
02U.S. senators read the title aloud on the Senate floor in 1989 as evidence of federal depravity.
03A print was physically attacked with hammers by protesters in Avignon, France, in 2011.

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01In 2017, the CDC reported a newborn infected with group B strep traced directly to the mother's placenta capsules.
02Some practitioners eat placenta raw in smoothies; others sauté it with onions and garlic as a post-birth meal.
03No controlled study has confirmed placentophagy's claimed benefits for mood, milk supply, or iron levels in humans.

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01Stubby survived a mustard gas attack; he then learned to warn soldiers by pawing at their faces.
02He served in 17 battles across 18 months — more combat than most human soldiers in WWI.
03Stubby was promoted to sergeant after capturing a German spy by biting his backside.

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01Taichang Emperor died on September 26, 1620 — his 29th day on the throne, cause officially undetermined.
02Court official Li Kezhuo supplied the red pills; he was later exiled but the formula remained secret.
03The 'Red Pill Case' became one of the Three Great Cases of the Wanli era, debated for centuries.

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Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907. Federal Hall National Memorial , with its statue of George Washington , is seen on the right.

01Morgan held senior bankers captive in his private library at 36th Street; the doors were locked from the outside by his staff.
02The panic began with the collapse of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, which lost $8 million in deposits in three hours.
03The 1907 crisis directly inspired the creation of the Federal Reserve, established six years later in 1913.

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01The tape was recorded September 2005 but sat in NBC archives for eleven years before leaking.
02Billy Bush was fired from the Today show within days; Trump was elected president weeks later.
03Trump called it 'locker room talk' — a phrase that entered political vocabulary as a category of defense.

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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'

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