Battle of Kunersdorf

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Frederick the Great lost 19,000 Prussian soldiers in a single afternoon at Kunersdorf and wrote a farewell letter the same evening, distributing command to a subordinate. He survived; Prussia barely did.

After playing his own game and feeling like a villain, Richard Garriott scrapped Ultima III's kill-everything model and invented a new goal: becoming a moral exemplar across eight virtues, with no final boss to slay.

Benedict Arnold — wounded twice in American service, the hero of Saratoga — negotiated the surrender of West Point to the British for £20,000 and a military commission. His handler, Major John André, was caught with the plans in his boot.

Named from the Old English 'sæd,' meaning solid — not sorrowful — the sad iron was a 6-pound cast-iron slab heated directly on the stove. Women rotated three irons to maintain one usable temperature.

Maradona punched the ball into England's net with his left fist in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final, then credited 'the Hand of God.' He scored the century's greatest goal four minutes later in the same match.

Sulla posted the first proscription list in 82 BCE — names on white board in the Forum, bounty payable in silver — turning neighbors into executioners; Cicero's hands were nailed to the Rostra after his name appeared on the second.

Norse berserkers bit their shields and charged wearing bear pelts, impervious to iron. Saga accounts describe them foaming at the mouth; one killed 11 men before being pinned to the earth with a pitchfork.

Ninety tins of Piero Manzoni's sealed feces sit in museum collections worldwide. Tin No. 083 sold for €275,000 in 2022 — worth more per gram than gold, exactly as Manzoni priced it in 1961.

El Paso Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire shot three men dead within eleven seconds of a gunfight starting, accidentally killing an innocent bystander in the same burst. He also killed the wrong man's dog on a separate occasion, triggering a feud.