Controversies surrounding Jair Bolsonaro — gnostek

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Poster symbolizing the Ele Não Movement.

01In 2016, Bolsonaro told Senator Maria do Rosário she was 'not worth raping' during a floor dispute.
02As president in 2019, he praised Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra — the man who tortured do Rosário — by name.
03Ustra's torture methods included electric shocks; Bolsonaro called him 'a terror for the left' on national television.

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01The SSC's ring would have been 87 km in circumference — three times the size of the LHC.
022,000 workers were laid off the day the Senate voted to cut funding, October 1993.
03The abandoned tunnels under Ellis County, Texas were briefly considered as a data center in 2021.

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01Nixon gave no advance notice to the IMF, the G10, or allied finance ministers before the August 15, 1971 broadcast.
02The U.S. held only $10 billion in gold reserves against $80 billion in foreign-held dollar claims at the time.
03The 'temporary' 10% import surcharge Nixon imposed that night was never formally repealed under its original authority.

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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'

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01Ueda used a design method he called 'subtractive design,' removing features until only the core remained.
02ICO was nearly cancelled by Sony twice before shipping on PS1 — it launched on PS2 in 2001 instead.
03The European and Japanese releases included a two-player co-op mode cut entirely from the North American version.

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01Serrano received a $15,000 NEA-affiliated award for 'Piss Christ' in 1987 before the controversy erupted.
02Senator Jesse Helms displayed the photograph on the Senate floor in 1989 and demanded NEA funding be stripped.
03A physical print was attacked with hammers by Catholic protesters in Avignon, France, in April 2011.

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01Physio Steph Brennan bit the capsule himself; the blood on his lips exposed the fraud immediately.
02The substituted player, Tom Williams, was later found to have also cut his own lip with a scalpel.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years over the scheme.

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Sir Geoffrey Luttrell , mounted, being assisted by his wife and daughter-in-law. Folio 202v.

01The Luttrell Psalter was created around 1320–1340 for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of Irnham, Lincolnshire, at a cost of £32.
02Marginalia include a man with a wheel for a body, a dog playing bagpipes, and a knight genuinely losing to a giant snail.
03The agricultural scenes are so detailed that historians reconstruct 14th-century plowing technique, crop rotation, and harness design from its pages.

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01Yumenguan was one of two garrison passes controlling movement out of China's northwest into the Tarim Basin desert.
02Wang Zhihuan's poem 'Liangzhou Ci' fixed Yumenguan as a cultural symbol of loneliness in 100 characters written around 700 AD.
03The fort's mudbrick ruins were excavated in the 20th century and still stand in Gansu, 90 kilometers from Dunhuang.

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