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Kanuni i Lek Dukagjinit

01The Kanun stipulates that a murdered man's blood must be repaid with blood — no cash settlement is valid.
02It grants full sanctuary to anyone inside a host's house; killing a guest inverts the feud obligation onto the host's killer.
03Albanian courts in the 1990s recorded defendants invoking Kanun as a legal defense for homicide.

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01After botched surgery, Cato pulled his own intestines out with his hands rather than accept Caesar's mercy.
02Caesar reportedly wept when told of Cato's death, saying 'I begrudge you this death' — his only rival for moral authority.
03Cato read Plato's Phaedo on the immortality of the soul twice on the night he killed himself, then drew his sword.

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01Hannibal honored the oath: he crossed the Alps with 37 war elephants and killed 70,000 Romans at Cannae.
02Hamilcar died in battle in Spain in 228 BC, never seeing what his oath produced.
03The Barca family name meant 'lightning' in Phoenician — three of his sons became generals.

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Poster symbolizing the Ele Não Movement.

01In 2016, Bolsonaro told Senator Maria do Rosário she was 'not worth raping' during a floor dispute.
02As president in 2019, he praised Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra — the man who tortured do Rosário — by name.
03Ustra's torture methods included electric shocks; Bolsonaro called him 'a terror for the left' on national television.

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01Buckner played on severely damaged ankles, wearing high-top cleats for support that may have slowed his glove.
02Manager John McNamara later admitted he meant to pull Buckner for defense but forgot in the excitement.
03The Red Sox led 5–3 in the 10th inning with two outs and two strikes on the batter before the error.

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North American F-100 Super Sabre dropping napalm in a training exercise

01The U.S. dropped 32,357 tons of napalm on Korea — more than in any prior conflict in history.
02Napalm B, the refined thermite-gel formula, was tested and standardized for mass production during the Korean War.
03By 1953, U.S. Air Force reports noted there were few remaining targets in North Korea not already destroyed.

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01Nine .30-caliber rounds were fired through the window; two entered Siegel's head, one exiting through his right eye socket.
02Fifteen minutes after the shooting, three men walked into the Las Vegas Flamingo and declared themselves the new owners.
03The hit was never officially solved; Meyer Lansky, his childhood friend, was the prime suspect he never named.

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01Sejanus had eliminated Tiberius's son Drusus — likely by poison — to clear his own path to power.
02His children were executed; his daughter, still a virgin, was first assaulted by the executioner because Roman law forbade killing virgins.
03After his fall, the Senate ordered every statue, inscription, and monument bearing his name destroyed — a full damnatio memoriae.

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01Atwood co-founded Unotchit Inc. in 2004 to commercialize the LongPen, which transmits handwriting via tablet in real time.
02She has published over sixty books across poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism across six decades.
03Her novel 'The Handmaid's Tale,' published in 1985, spent 52 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list after the 2016 U.S. election.

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