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Under the Group Areas Act, apartheid bulldozed Cape Town's District Six — a jazz-loud, mosque-and-church neighbourhood of sixty thousand people — and relocated them to sand flats twelve miles away. The rubble sat empty for decades.

Ded Gjo Luli became the Albanian folk archetype of feud honor after dying in a last stand against Ottoman troops — his name still invoked at reconciliation ceremonies as a standard of masculine sacrifice.

UVA lacrosse captain George Huguely V beat teammate Yeardley Love to death in her apartment hours before their 2010 graduation. He was convicted of second-degree murder; her family later won a $7.5 million civil judgment.

The Taichang Emperor reigned 29 days before dying — reportedly after swallowing red pills supplied by a court official named Li Kezhuo, whose formula was never fully disclosed.

Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote 67 words to Lord Rothschild in 1917, promising a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Those 67 words are still quoted in international courts more than a century later.

Paris workers governed themselves for 72 days in 1871, burning the Tuileries Palace on their way out. The French army then shot an estimated 10,000 Communards in one week. Self-rule ended in a mass grave.

Tod Frye had five weeks to port Pac-Man to the Atari 2600 — constrained to a 4KB cartridge — and shipped a version so degraded that 12 million units moved but consumer trust in Atari never recovered.

Tino De Angelis filled vast New Jersey tanks mostly with seawater, floated a thin film of soybean oil on top for inspectors, and borrowed $175 million against it. The 1963 collapse took down two Wall Street firms in a single afternoon.

Aldrich Ames ran the CIA's Soviet counterintelligence division while methodically selling its agent roster to Moscow. Within a year of his first data dump in 1985, at least ten CIA assets inside the Soviet Union were executed.