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01Crassus, the richest man in Rome, was killed; legend says molten gold was poured into his mouth.
02Parthian horse archers fired 20,000 arrows per hour from the saddle — a rate Rome had never faced.
03The captured eagle standards were not recovered for 33 years, until diplomatic negotiation under Augustus in 20 BC.

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01Tupac named Faith Evans directly, implicating a living woman in a public adultery claim.
02The track also threatened the entire Bad Boy roster by name, including Puffy and Mobb Deep.
03Released on 'All Eyez on Me,' one of rap's best-selling albums, giving the insult maximum reach.

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01Mithridates's daily poison regimen — a compound later called 'Mithridate' — was considered a universal antidote for 1,500 years after his death.
02He fought three separate wars against Rome, surviving campaigns from 88 BC to 63 BC across Asia Minor and the Black Sea.
03At his final defeat, his suicide-by-poison failed entirely; he ordered a Gallic officer named Bituitus to kill him by sword.

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01Pakistan's planners named the operation after Gibraltar, expecting a similar strategic seizure of territory.
02Kashmiris who were supposed to join the uprising instead led Indian forces to the infiltrators' positions.
03The operation's failure directly triggered the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, which ended in a UN-brokered ceasefire.

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A barrel-type butter churn

01Producing one pound of butter required approximately 40 minutes of continuous up-and-down plunging by hand.
02Children were routinely assigned churning duty in American farm households through the early 20th century.
03The dash churn, a vertical tube with a plunging rod, was the dominant design from 1700 to 1900.

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01Wittig delivered 'The Straight Mind' at the 1980 MLA conference, declaring heterosexuality a political regime, not a preference.
02Her 1969 novel 'Les Guérillères' featured an army of women burning every text that named them.
03She argued 'lesbian' is the only subject position outside the male/female binary — not a third gender, an escape.

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01WannaCry used EternalBlue, an NSA-developed exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
0280,000 NHS devices were hit; surgeries were cancelled and ambulances diverted across England.
03A 22-year-old named Marcus Hutchins halted the attack by registering a $10.69 domain name.

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A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Bishop Odo rallying Duke William 's army during the Battle of Hastings in 1066

01The Bayeux Tapestry stretches 70 metres long but is only 50 centimetres tall, stitched in eight colours of dyed wool.
02It was likely made in Canterbury by English embroiderers, commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, William the Conqueror's half-brother.
03A Halley's Comet appears in scene 32, depicted as an omen above figures pointing upward in visible alarm, dated to 1066.

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01Rapture's founding philosophy quotes Rand directly; Andrew Ryan's name is an anagram of Ayn Rand.
02The Little Sisters harvest a substance called ADAM from corpses — a child labor economy written into the lore.
03The twist in 1960 Rapture: the player-character was a sleeper agent controlled by the phrase 'Would you kindly.'

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