gnostek1 / 51Devotional scene to Inanna , Warka Vase , c. 3200–3000 BC, Uruk. This is one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture.
01Uruk's walls ran 9.5 kilometres around the city, enclosing roughly 5.5 square kilometres of ancient urban space.
02The Epic of Gilgamesh opens by directing the reader to go look at the walls — a 4,000-year-old tourist instruction.
03Archaeologists confirmed the circuit dates to circa 3000 BCE, placing the walls among the oldest ever excavated.
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01Baca was nineteen when he arrested a drunken cowboy in Frisco, New Mexico, triggering the standoff in October 1884.
02The Texans fired an estimated 4,000 rounds into the jacal; Baca killed four men and wounded eight.
03Baca was tried for murder twice and acquitted both times — he later became a lawyer and then a sheriff.
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01Rapture's architecture was modeled on 1940s Art Deco with over 100 distinct interior environments hand-detailed.
02The game's central twist reframes every player action across the preceding six hours as a conditioned response.
03BioShock sold over 4 million copies in its first year, elevating the shooter into serious literary criticism.
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01Hajiro advanced solo on two German machine-gun positions and one sniper in the Vosges Mountains, October 1944.
02His Distinguished Service Cross was upgraded to the Medal of Honor in June 2000 — 56 years after the action.
03Hajiro's family was interned at Gila River camp while he fought in France.
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01Ciskei troops killed 29 ANC marchers and wounded 200 on 7 September 1992 inside the Bisho stadium.
02The march was led by Ronnie Kasrils, who had identified a gap in the perimeter fence and ordered the crowd through it.
03Ciskei military ruler Oupa Gqozo, who ordered the defence, refused TRC amnesty and denied responsibility until 1999.
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01Mario Kart Wii sold 37.38 million copies, making it the best-selling Mario Kart entry in the series.
02The included Wii Wheel cost Nintendo almost nothing to manufacture, yet players consistently rated it as satisfying.
03Online play via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection let players race strangers worldwide — a first for console Mario Kart.
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01Frye was limited to 4 kilobytes of ROM; the arcade Pac-Man ran on hardware with far greater capacity.
02Atari produced 12 million cartridges expecting Pac-Man to sell the 2600 console to new households.
03The port's failure — returning millions of unsold units — is cited as a primary trigger of the 1983 crash.
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01God kills Job's ten children, 7,000 sheep, and 3,000 camels on a bet with Satan.
02The prose frame—where Job is rewarded—was likely added centuries after the original poem was written.
03At the end, God mocks Job from a whirlwind for 71 verses without answering a single question.
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01Attacker Shane Stant struck Kerrigan's knee with a collapsible baton on January 6, 1994, then fled through a plexiglass door.
02The hit cost $6,500; Gillooly later sold his story to a tabloid for a reported $50,000.
03Harding was banned for life from U.S. figure skating but was never formally banned from the 1994 Lillehammer Games.