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01The Dacian haul of 165 tonnes of gold was the largest single treasure seizure in Roman history.
02Trajan celebrated the victory with 123 days of games involving 11,000 animals and 10,000 gladiators.
03Dacia's king Decebalus cut his own throat rather than be paraded through Rome in Trajan's triumph.

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Messenia , homeland of Sparta's helot population, from Mount Ithome .

01Krypteia initiates were given a knife and sent into the countryside to kill helots without witnesses.
02The ritual was supervised by the ephors — Sparta's top magistrates — making murder an official curriculum.
03Helots outnumbered Spartans roughly 7-to-1; the Krypteia was demographic terror dressed as a rite of passage.

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01King Corobo recruits citizens by walking up and bowing to them, after which they follow him voluntarily.
02The game's soundtrack samples and recomposes themes from Dvořák, Offenbach, and Beethoven throughout its playtime.
03Little King's Story was made by a small team at Marvelous Entertainment and nearly went unpublished outside Japan.

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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 eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01The fix was orchestrated by Arnold Rothstein, a New York gambler who bankrolled $80,000 to throw the series.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson hit .375 and drove in six runs during the 'thrown' Series, yet was banned alongside the conspirators.
03All eight players were acquitted at trial in 1921 but were banned from baseball for life by Commissioner Landis the next day.

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01The first detected signal, GW150914, lasted just 0.2 seconds and shifted mirrors by 10⁻¹⁸ meters.
02LIGO has two identical detectors 3,002 km apart in Louisiana and Washington to filter out local noise.
03The two merging black holes were 29 and 36 solar masses; their collision radiated more power than all stars combined.

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01Physio Steph Brennan made a real cut on Williams's lip with a scalpel to produce genuine blood post-capsule.
02The scheme was designed to exploit the 'blood bin' rule, allowing a specialist kicker back onto the field.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years; Brennan lost her medical registration.

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01Ueda used a design method he called 'subtractive design,' removing features until only the core remained.
02ICO was nearly cancelled by Sony twice before shipping on PS1 — it launched on PS2 in 2001 instead.
03The European and Japanese releases included a two-player co-op mode cut entirely from the North American version.

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01Kuwait's slant-drilling into the Rumaila field, shared with Iraq, gave Saddam his stated casus belli.
02100,000 Iraqi troops and 700 tanks crossed the border in the pre-dawn hours of August 2, 1990.
03US Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam days before that America had 'no opinion' on Arab border disputes.

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