01One audience member cut off her clothes; another pressed a loaded pistol to her skull.
02After six hours, Abramović stood and walked toward the crowd — they fled rather than face her.
03Among the 72 objects: a rose, a scalpel, a bullet, and a feather boa.
gnostek1 / 2A Jake and Dinos Chapman fused mannequin piece from the exhibition Come and See at the Serpentine Gallery
01The original Goya plates date from 1810–1820; the Chapmans overpainted them in 2003.
02They titled the defaced series 'Insult to Injury,' inverting Goya's humanitarian intent entirely.
03Jake Chapman said ruining the Goyas was more creative than making new work from scratch.
gnostek1 / 5An illustration of Cantor's diagonal argument (in base 2) for the existence of uncountable sets . The sequence at the bottom cannot occur anywhere in the enumeration of sequences above.
01Cantor's diagonal argument fits on one page: construct a number differing from every listed entry at position n.
02It proved the reals are 'uncountably' infinite — a strictly larger infinity than the counting numbers.
03Cantor suffered repeated breakdowns; fellow mathematician Kronecker called him a 'corrupter of youth.'
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01Buckner played on severely damaged ankles, wearing high-top cleats for support that may have slowed his glove.
02Manager John McNamara later admitted he meant to pull Buckner for defense but forgot in the excitement.
03The Red Sox led 5–3 in the 10th inning with two outs and two strikes on the batter before the error.
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01The downed helicopter was a classified RQ-170-derived stealth variant; Pakistan allowed China to inspect the wreckage.
02Bin Laden was shot twice — once in the chest, once above the left eye — on the third floor.
03His body was buried at sea from USS Carl Vinson within 24 hours to prevent a shrine forming.
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01The 442nd suffered roughly 800 casualties rescuing 211 men of the 36th Infantry's 'Lost Battalion' in October 1944.
02The Texans had been surrounded in the Vosges for a week before Japanese American soldiers broke through.
03The 442nd became the most decorated unit of its size in U.S. military history — largely from this campaign.
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01Hostages included foreign nationals seized in earlier raids, used as shields inside an active hospital.
02Local officials were later investigated for allegedly allowing Abu Sayyaf fighters to escape the cordon.
03A Congressional inquiry found evidence that military officers may have negotiated a passage out for the gunmen.
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01The helmet was found in 263 fragments; conservators spent years reconstructing it like a three-dimensional iron jigsaw.
02The burial ship was 27 meters long and left no wood — only a ghost-stain of iron rivets in the soil.
03Edith Pretty, the landowner, gifted the entire hoard to the British Museum in 1939, one of the largest private donations in its history.
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01Horn reportedly charged $500 per kill and placed a rock under each victim's head as a signature calling card.
02The 1901 murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell turned public opinion; Horn claimed he shot the wrong target.
03His recorded confession was made to a deputy posing as a friend over whiskey in a Cheyenne saloon.