Church Street, Pretoria bombing — gnostek

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01The Church Street bomb killed 19 people and wounded 217 on 20 May 1983 in central Pretoria.
02MK operative Aboobaker Ismail, who planned the bombing, later testified at the TRC and received amnesty.
03South Africa retaliated six days later with an airstrike on ANC offices in Maputo, Mozambique, killing six.

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01Empress Fu was dragged past Emperor Xian in the corridor to her execution; he could not intervene.
02Cao Cao forced Xian to marry his own daughter after murdering Empress Fu, consolidating control through the bedchamber.
03Emperor Xian outlived the Han dynasty by fourteen years, dying peacefully in 234 CE as a feudal prince.

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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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01The Hoxne Hoard contained 14,865 gold and silver coins, 200 gold and silver objects, and weighed nearly 8 kg total.
02A gold body-chain belonging to 'Juliane' — her name stamped in the clasp — was among the jewelry; she buried it around AD 407.
03Lawes received a full market-value reward of £1.75 million, split with the landowner; he donated part to the local church.

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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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Piles of new Notgeld banknotes awaiting distribution at the Reichsbank during the hyperinflation

01Weimar inflation peaked at 29,500% per month in October 1923; a postage stamp cost 10 billion marks.
02The German government printed money to pay World War I reparations; by 1923, paper notes were cheaper as fuel than firewood.
03A new currency, the Rentenmark, was introduced November 15, 1923 — one Rentenmark exchanged for one trillion old marks.

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01Gallo was hit by multiple rounds and staggered out onto Hester Street, collapsing on the curb — he died before the ambulance arrived.
02He had just been released from prison ten days earlier and was already back at the center of a Colombo family war.
03Bob Dylan wrote 'Joey' about him in 1975, a nine-minute ballad that became one of the most debated songs in Dylan's catalog.

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01Cronje initially denied all charges; he confessed only after Indian police played him recordings of his own phone calls.
02One payment was a leather jacket plus $10,000–$15,000 cash to influence a limited-overs match against India in 2000.
03He was banned for life in October 2000 and died in a cargo plane crash in June 2002, aged 32.

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01Rommel captured Monte Matajur with 150 men, taking 9,000 prisoners — earning the Pour le Mérite at age 29.
02Italy lost 300,000 prisoners, 10,000 dead, and 30,000 wounded in six days of fighting at Caporetto.
03The catastrophe directly inspired Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms' — he drove ambulances on that front.

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