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01The poem is set on Christmas Eve 1702; the killings are framed as a sacrament, not a crime.
02Author Petar II Petrović-Njegoš was simultaneously a prince, a bishop, and the poem's moral narrator.
03Scholars still debate whether the istraga poturica it depicts was a real massacre or a nationalist myth.

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01A three-month-old infant was stabbed through the heart with a wooden stake at a 1994 Quebec site.
02Fires ignited simultaneously in chalets in Cheiry and Salvan, Switzerland, and Morin-Heights, Quebec, on October 4–5, 1994.
03A final wave in 1997 killed 5 more in Quebec; the youngest was 16, the oldest 69.

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A bile bear in a "crush cage" on Huizhou Farm, Huizhou , China

01An estimated 20,000 bears are currently held on bile farms in China and Vietnam, many in 'crush cages.'
02Bear bile contains ursodeoxycholic acid — a compound now synthesized cheaply in labs, making farming medically redundant.
03Moon bears on farms are often declawed and defanged at capture; some have been caged since cubhood.

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01Nineteen Chinese men were lynched in a single night — roughly 10% of Los Angeles's entire Chinese population.
02The mob looted an estimated $40,000 in cash and jewelry from victims before hanging them.
03Eight men were convicted of manslaughter, but all convictions were vacated within a year on procedural grounds.

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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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01Black Tuesday, October 29, saw 16 million shares sold; the Dow lost 12% of its value in a single session.
02U.S. GDP fell 30% between 1929 and 1933; unemployment reached 25% — one in four American workers.
03The crash wiped out roughly $30 billion in market value within two weeks, equivalent to the entire U.S. GDP at the time.

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01Clive's force at Plassey numbered roughly 3,000; the Nawab's army stood at over 50,000, yet losses were fewer than 80 British dead.
02Mir Jafar's reward was the throne of Bengal — but the East India Company removed and reinstated him twice within six years.
03The Bengali term 'Mir Jafar' remains a living insult for traitor, used in political discourse to this day.

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Close-up of a barbed wire

01Glidden sold his patent share to Washburn & Moen for $60,000 plus royalties in 1876.
02By 1890, the open-range cattle industry was effectively dead — killed by wire, not weather.
03WWI trenches on the Western Front used an estimated 1,200 miles of barbed wire by 1917.

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01Melanosomes in the preserved skin allowed researchers to reconstruct a dark-backed, pale-bellied striped pattern in 2016.
02Countershading suggests Psittacosaurus lived in a forest environment with overhead light — a habitat conclusion from skin pigment alone.
03The same specimen reveals a cloaca, confirming for the first time what a non-avian dinosaur's vent actually looked like.

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