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01Meditations was written in Greek, not Latin, and titled by others — Aurelius gave it no name.
02He wrote most entries on the Danube frontier during the Marcomannic Wars, between battles.
03The text contains zero political advice; it is entirely directed at disciplining himself, not others.

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01Cho mailed a video manifesto to NBC News between his two attacks, a 2-hour window police did not close.
0232 people were killed; the Virginia Tech massacre remains the deadliest U.S. campus shooting on record.
03The shooting exposed a gap in federal law: Cho had been ruled mentally ill but passed background checks.

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Two sancai -glazed Tang dynasty tomb figures , early 8th century, Prague National Gallery

01Emperor Wu sent two separate armies; the first 40,000 men were turned back by desert and siege before a second force of 60,000 succeeded.
02The 'blood-sweating' was likely caused by a parasitic worm, Parafilaria multipapillosa, which causes subcutaneous hemorrhaging.
03The Ferghana horses were called Tianma — Heavenly Horses — and Wu composed a poem in their honor.

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Icebox used in cafés of Paris in the late 1800s

01The U.S. natural ice industry harvested over 25 million tons annually from lakes by 1880.
02Ice was cut in winter, packed in sawdust, and stored in insulated warehouses until summer delivery.
03A failed ice delivery on a hot day could spoil a family's entire weekly food supply by evening.

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01Rai stones can measure up to 3.6 meters across and weigh over 4 metric tons.
02One stone sank to the sea floor in transit; the family retained full ownership — everyone knew.
03Economists compare Yap's oral ledger to the gold France claimed from the US Federal Reserve in 1932 without moving it.

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01116 people died in the blast and subsequent fire; Abu Sayyaf was paid roughly $400 to execute the attack.
02The bomb was concealed inside a television set stored in the vessel's cargo hold.
03It remains the single deadliest terrorist attack on a civilian vessel in peacetime, worldwide.

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01Vercingetorix united over thirty Gallic tribes — the only leader ever to do so against Rome in the Gallic Wars.
02He was held in the Tullianum prison in Rome for six years before being paraded in Caesar's triumph and executed in 46 BC.
03At Alesia, Vercingetorix ordered civilians expelled from the town to save food; Caesar refused to let them through his lines and they starved in the gap.

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01Prey's Talos I space station was designed as a coherent 1960s-retrofuturist structure with logical internal geography.
02The Mimics' shapeshifting was inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing and Stanisław Lem's Solaris.
03Players can craft a 'GLOO Cannon' that fires hardening foam, climbing station exteriors in zero gravity.

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01The Gauls held Rome for seven months; the ransom was 1,000 pounds of gold before Brennus added his sword.
02'Vae victis' — woe to the conquered — became the phrase Rome never forgot and never forgave.
03Rome's humiliation was so total that they later invented a legend where Camillus rode in to stop the payment.

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