Charles G. Abrell — gnostek

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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.

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01Voltaire predicted Christianity would collapse within 100 years; the Geneva Bible Society occupied his house by 1828.
02He annotated his own copy of the Bible with the word 'absurd' in the margins, repeatedly, throughout.
03Voltaire wrote over 20,000 letters in his lifetime, many mocking Scripture by quoting it back verbatim.

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Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

01At Carrhae, Surena killed roughly 20,000 Romans and captured 10,000, destroying Crassus's entire eastern army.
02He killed the triumvir Crassus — one-third of Rome's ruling power — ending Rome's richest man.
03King Orodes II had Surena executed shortly after the victory, reportedly fearing his general's growing prestige.

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Red Bird – watercolour on paper

01Giuliani threatened to cut $7 million in city funding to the Brooklyn Museum over the painting.
02Ofili, a Catholic, said the dung was a reverent material — he used it in nearly every painting.
03A man entered the museum and smeared white paint over the canvas; he was arrested on-site.

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01Empress Fu was dragged past Emperor Xian in the corridor to her execution; he could not intervene.
02Cao Cao forced Xian to marry his own daughter after murdering Empress Fu, consolidating control through the bedchamber.
03Emperor Xian outlived the Han dynasty by fourteen years, dying peacefully in 234 CE as a feudal prince.

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01The quest 'The Power of the Atom' rewards 500 caps and a luxury suite for detonating the town.
02Moira Brown, an NPC in Megaton, survives as a ghoul if the player detonates the bomb — she still thanks you.
03The bomb at Megaton's center is a live, undetonated Fat Man-class nuclear device treated as civic furniture.

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01Derby-Lewis's list contained the names, addresses, and vehicle registration numbers of over 60 ANC targets.
02His wife Gaye Derby-Lewis typed the final version of the list and was convicted alongside him as a co-conspirator.
03Derby-Lewis applied for amnesty to the TRC but was denied; he died in prison of cancer in 2016.

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01The smuggler added Bondo-brand car putty to the snout to inflate the fossil's apparent completeness and price.
02Scientists spent months chiseling out the fake material before they could study the actual bone underneath.
03Irritator challengeri's species name honors Professor Challenger, the fictional explorer from Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

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01Prisoners' limbs were submerged in ice water until frozen solid, then struck to test tissue fracture.
02Unit 731 doctors described the sound of a frozen, struck limb as resembling a ripe watermelon.
03Frostbite data from these trials was later used to advise the US military on cold-weather combat medicine.

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