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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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01Edison Manufacturing Company filmed Topsy's electrocution; the film, 'Electrocuting an Elephant,' was commercially distributed that same year.
02Topsy killed three men in three years, including an abusive trainer who fed her a lit cigarette.
03She was given cyanide-laced carrots, then 6,600 volts — organizers had originally planned to hang her publicly.

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General Tomoyuki Yamashita

01Roxas sued Ferdinand Marcos in a Hawaii court and won a $22 billion judgment in 1996 — the largest ever against a head of state.
02Japanese engineers allegedly dug over 170 tunnel complexes across the Philippines between 1942 and 1945 to conceal looted Asian wealth.
03Marcos reportedly had the golden Buddha Roxas found melted and recast to erase provenance markings.

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01Gein crafted a full 'woman suit' from skin to wear while dancing under the moonlight.
02Police found ten skulls — some sawn open, some used as bowls — at his farmhouse in 1957.
03He killed only two confirmed people; his most disturbing trophies came from exhumed graves.

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01Velites were Rome's light infantry drawn exclusively from its poorest citizen class.
02Each Velite carried seven 90cm javelins into battle, hurling them before retreating through the ranks.
03The wolf skull headdress served a tactical purpose: commanders used it to track skirmisher positions mid-battle.

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01The Christian house-church at Dura-Europos contains wall paintings dated to around 235 CE — the earliest known Christian pictorial art.
02The city's walls were deliberately packed with earth as a ramp during the Sasanian siege, sealing entire buildings intact.
03A single city block within those walls held a Christian baptistery, a Jewish synagogue, and a temple to Mithras simultaneously.

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01Supreme's 2012 New Hampshire primary campaign included a glitter-bomb thrown at rival candidate Randall Terry during a public forum.
02He polled 833 votes in the 2016 New Hampshire Democratic primary, beating two candidates who spent real campaign money.
03His pony platform doubles as an economic policy: ponies as personal transportation to reduce fossil fuel dependence.

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01Sanders interrogated Shirō Ishii personally in autumn 1945, before any formal tribunal was convened.
02He accepted biological weapons research built on thousands of deaths in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
03Sanders never publicly disclosed the contents of the deal; the files stayed classified for over 30 years.

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01Dillon's 1946 phalloplasty, performed by Sir Harold Gillies, was the first such procedure recorded in medical history.
02After his trans identity was exposed in the British press in 1958, Dillon fled to India within weeks.
03He died in a Tibetan monastery in 1962, having taken the monastic name Jivaka — a classical Buddhist physician-saint.

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