gnostek1 / 4Chinese propaganda poster from the Korean War era: "Vaccinate everyone, to crush the germ warfare of US imperialism !"
01China produced 25 U.S. POW confessions to biological warfare; all 25 airmen recanted upon repatriation in 1953.
02A 1952 International Scientific Commission, led by British scientist Joseph Needham, concluded the allegations were credible.
03Declassified Soviet documents suggest the confessions were coerced; no independent physical evidence has ever been verified.
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01Port Authority police boarded the departing Air France flight and removed Strauss-Kahn from seat number 1A, first class.
02Nafissatou Diallo, a 32-year-old Guinea-born housekeeper, described the assault in a civil suit that settled for an undisclosed sum.
03French polls showed Strauss-Kahn leading Nicolas Sarkozy by 10 points in presidential projections the week of his arrest.
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01Vercingetorix united over thirty Gallic tribes — the only leader ever to do so against Rome in the Gallic Wars.
02He was held in the Tullianum prison in Rome for six years before being paraded in Caesar's triumph and executed in 46 BC.
03At Alesia, Vercingetorix ordered civilians expelled from the town to save food; Caesar refused to let them through his lines and they starved in the gap.
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01Temperatures hit −35 °C; rifle bolts froze, morphine syrettes had to be thawed in mouths before use.
02The 1st Marine Division suffered 4,418 battle casualties and 7,338 frostbite casualties in 17 days.
03General Oliver Smith called it not a retreat but 'attacking in a different direction' — 78 miles to the coast.
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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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01Muhammad's actual target was his ex-wife Mildred; the 10 random killings were designed as camouflage.
02He had trained Malvo, then a teenager, for months before the 2002 attacks began.
03Muhammad was executed at Greensville Correctional Center, Virginia, on November 10, 2009.
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01Schwarzman's 2007 birthday party at the Park Avenue Armory cost an estimated $3 million and featured Rod Stewart.
02Blackstone's IPO that same year valued Schwarzman's personal stake at roughly $7.8 billion.
03He later donated $100 million to Yale, $150 million to MIT, and $188 million to Oxford — each naming a building.
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01Mary weighed approximately five tons; the first execution chain broke, forcing a second attempt before a crowd.
02She killed trainer Red Eldridge on September 11, 1916 — one day into his job.
03The town of Erwin, Tennessee threatened to ban the entire Sparks World Famous Shows circus unless Mary was executed.
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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.