03His Voskhod 2 capsule then landed 386 km off target; he and his crewmate spent a night in a wolf-populated Siberian forest.
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01Pakistan's planners named the operation after Gibraltar, expecting a similar strategic seizure of territory.
02Kashmiris who were supposed to join the uprising instead led Indian forces to the infiltrators' positions.
03The operation's failure directly triggered the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, which ended in a UN-brokered ceasefire.
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01Hauser could not walk on grass without excruciating pain; his feet had never touched uneven ground.
02Some 19th-century investigators believed he was the hereditary Prince of Baden, hidden to clear a succession.
03He was stabbed in a public garden in 1833; his killer left no trace — mirroring his own arrival.
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01The border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs through houses, restaurants, and shops in Baarle-Hertog — marked by crosses on the floor.
02The municipality consists of 22 Belgian parcels inside the Netherlands, with 8 Dutch counter-enclaves inside those Belgian parcels.
03During WWII, the border's precise location determined which shops could stay open under German occupation — residents shifted furniture to the Belgian side.
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01Dunhuang's Mogao Caves contain 492 decorated chambers spanning ten dynasties — over 45,000 square meters of murals.
02The town sat at the fork where the northern and southern Silk Road branches split around the Taklamakan Desert.
03Among the cave documents: a 10th-century Chinese contract for the sale of a girl, complete with her price in silk.