Mitt Romney 2012 presidential campaign

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At a $50,000-a-plate Boca Raton fundraiser, Romney told donors 47% of Americans 'believe they are victims' and pay no income tax. A bartender's phone captured every word.

On October 24, 1929 — Black Thursday — 12.9 million shares changed hands before noon. The suicide of ruined investors became so expected that hotel clerks asked guests: 'For sleeping or jumping?'

In a 1947 memo, MacArthur's command confirmed immunity for all Unit 731 officers. The general who tried Japanese officers for war crimes at Manila simultaneously shielded Japan's worst war criminals from Tokyo.

A woodcarver named František Rint arranged 40,000 human bones into chandeliers, coats of arms, and garlands inside a Czech church — a medieval memento mori that still holds Sunday mass.

In July 1936, Barcelona's anarchists collectivized every barbershop, hotel, and tram line within weeks of Franco's coup. Waiters became co-owners. One journalist noted the menu prices hadn't changed, but the waiters walked differently.

Herodotus ranked Babylon's walls among the world's wonders; excavations showed he undersold them — the outer wall ran 90 feet thick, wide enough to turn a four-horse chariot on top.

Olympic champion Fabio Casartelli, 24, hit a concrete bollard at 88 km/h on the Col de Portet d'Aspet in 1995 — without a helmet. His teammates rode the next stage in silence, no one sprinting.

For 23 days in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people across greater Washington from a blue Chevrolet Caprice with a sniper's port cut into the trunk. Gas stations became killing fields.

Braid's final level reverses time to reveal the princess the player has been chasing is not a captive — she is running from the player. The epilogue text identifies her as the atomic bomb. Jonathan Blow hid this in 2008.