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01Kobayakawa Hideaki's defection at noon on October 21, 1600 swung 30,000 men to Tokugawa's side mid-battle.
02The battle lasted just six hours; it ended 150 years of civil war in Japan.
03Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory established a shogunate that closed Japan to the outside world until 1853.

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01The Initiation Well descends 30 meters underground via a spiral staircase of 9 floors — one for each Masonic circle.
02Owner António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro spent his entire Brazilian-inheritance fortune building the estate between 1904 and 1910.
03A network of tunnels connects the well to grottoes, a lake, and a chapel built directly over a burial vault.

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Fritz Haber , 1918

01Haber's nitrogen fixation process now sustains roughly half of all human beings alive on Earth.
02He directed the April 22, 1915 chlorine attack at Ypres — 168 tons released in one morning.
03His wife Clara, also a chemist, shot herself with his service pistol days after Ypres.

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01In 310 BC, Agathocles invaded Africa while Carthage besieged his city — the first European to attack Carthage on home soil.
02He started as a literal potter, was exiled twice for sedition, then seized Syracuse with a sword.
03He declared himself King of Sicily in 304 BC, the first Western ruler to adopt that specific Hellenistic title.

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01Casartelli's skull fractured on a roadside concrete drainage block on the Portet d'Aspet descent.
02He was 24, married, with a son born just months before the race.
03Lance Armstrong won the very next stage and pointed skyward at the line, for Casartelli.

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01He crashed at full sprint into a Coca-Cola barrier on the Champs-Élysées in the 1991 Tour's final stage.
02Officials classified him as a finisher despite the crash, preserving his points-jersey lead on a technicality.
03Nicknamed 'The Tashkent Terror,' Abdoujaparov was infamous for dangerous sprinting long before Paris.

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Sir Geoffrey Luttrell , mounted, being assisted by his wife and daughter-in-law. Folio 202v.

01The Luttrell Psalter was created around 1320–1340 for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of Irnham, Lincolnshire, at a cost of £32.
02Marginalia include a man with a wheel for a body, a dog playing bagpipes, and a knight genuinely losing to a giant snail.
03The agricultural scenes are so detailed that historians reconstruct 14th-century plowing technique, crop rotation, and harness design from its pages.

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01It was Flavor Aid, not Kool-Aid, laced with cyanide, Valium, and Phenergan in the vat.
02Aerial photography revealed the 918 corpses laid in deliberate concentric circles around Jones's throne-like chair.
03A tape recording of the death ceremony runs 44 minutes; children screaming are audible throughout.

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01The LHC's superconducting magnets operate at 1.9 Kelvin, colder than the cosmic microwave background.
02On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the Higgs boson's discovery to a room where Peter Higgs wept.
03Each proton beam carries the kinetic energy equivalent of a 400-tonne train at 150 km/h.

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