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01Alexander charged at Darius personally with the Companion Cavalry — Darius fled, abandoning his mother, wife, and children.
02Gaugamela was fought in 331 BC on a plain Darius chose and had specially flattened for his scythed chariots.
03After Gaugamela, Darius was murdered by his own satrap Bessus before Alexander could capture him.

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01The Atocha sank in 1622 carrying 40 tons of silver, 115 gold bars, and 350 chests of unregistered contraband.
02Fisher's son Kane and daughter-in-law Angel died July 19, 1975 when the salvage vessel Northwind rolled over at night.
03Fisher's daily battle cry for sixteen years was 'Today's the day' — he said it the morning of the main find.

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01The Friend refused all gendered pronouns for over forty years, insisting the prior self had literally ceased to exist.
02At the movement's height, the Friend led a community of hundreds at Jerusalem, New York, founded in 1788.
03Colonial crowds gathered in thousands to hear the Friend preach — a figure who claimed to carry no earthly name or sex.

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01Paris Hilton named her kinkajou 'Baby Luv'; it bit her arm severely enough to require hospital treatment.
02Kinkajous are nocturnal, arboreal, and possess a prehensile tail — entirely unsuited to paparazzi flashbulbs.
03Their diet is 90% fruit, making them major rainforest seed dispersers across Central and South America.

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01Antony left 19 legions stranded on the Greek coast when he abandoned his fleet to chase Cleopatra.
02Cleopatra's treasure ship — carrying the war chest for the entire eastern campaign — was on those 60 fleeing vessels.
03Octavian accepted Antony's surrendering legions, then used their manpower to become Augustus Caesar.

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01Gein crafted a full 'woman suit' from skin to wear while dancing under the moonlight.
02Police found ten skulls — some sawn open, some used as bowls — at his farmhouse in 1957.
03He killed only two confirmed people; his most disturbing trophies came from exhumed graves.

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01The expedition's chief architect, Alcibiades, defected to Sparta before the fleet even arrived in Sicily.
02The entire Athenian force — roughly 38,000 men — was killed or enslaved by 413 BC.
03Thucydides called it the greatest single military disaster ever suffered by a Greek city-state.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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The Liver of Piacenza , a bronze diagram of the sheep's liver found near Piacenza with Etruscan inscriptions

01Haruspicy was inherited from the Etruscans; Rome never developed it independently.
02A bronze model liver found at Piacenza, divided into 40 named sections, was the haruspex's training manual.
03Julius Caesar ignored the haruspex Spurinna's warning on the Ides of March — then received 23 stab wounds.

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