gnostek1 / 5U.S. representative Michael Myers , second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents
01Congressman Michael Myers was caught on tape saying 'money talks and bullshit walks' while pocketing $50,000 in cash.
02Senator Harrison Williams was filmed agreeing to use Senate influence for a fictional titanium mine in exchange for bribery.
03The sting used a fake company, 'Abdul Enterprises,' and a fabricated sheikh persona maintained for nearly two full years.
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01Casartelli's skull fractured on a roadside concrete drainage block on the Portet d'Aspet descent.
02He was 24, married, with a son born just months before the race.
03Lance Armstrong won the very next stage and pointed skyward at the line, for Casartelli.
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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.
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01Chicago's 'The Dinner Party' features 39 ceramic vulva-plates for women including Sojourner Truth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Virginia Woolf.
02The installation required over 400 volunteer workers and five years of labor before its 1979 debut at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
03The Heritage Floor beneath the table lists 999 additional women's names in gold on porcelain tiles — women who didn't even get a plate.
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01The Praetorians demanded a donative of 15,000 sesterces per man to support Claudius — the first time the Guard sold the throne.
02Claudius conquered Britain in 43 CE, personally arriving for 16 days to accept the formal surrender — riding an elephant.
03His fourth wife Agrippina fed him poisoned mushrooms; he lingered, so a physician pushed a feather down his throat laced with more poison.
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01All 39 wore identical black Nike Decades — a detail the shoe brand quietly tried to suppress.
02At least 8 male members had voluntarily castrated themselves before the 1997 mass suicide.
03Leader Marshall Applewhite convinced followers their bodies were mere 'containers' for alien souls called 'Next Level beings.'
gnostek1 / 2Messenia , homeland of Sparta's helot population, from Mount Ithome .
01Krypteia initiates were given a knife and sent into the countryside to kill helots without witnesses.
02The ritual was supervised by the ephors — Sparta's top magistrates — making murder an official curriculum.
03Helots outnumbered Spartans roughly 7-to-1; the Krypteia was demographic terror dressed as a rite of passage.
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01Thirty pieces of silver — the price paid — was roughly a month's wages for a laborer in Roman Judea.
02The Gospels cannot agree on how Judas died: Matthew says he hanged himself; Acts says his bowels burst open in a field.
03Dante placed Judas in the ninth and deepest circle of Hell, frozen in Satan's mouth alongside Brutus and Cassius.
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01Robles Ávila commanded troops in Zapatista campaigns across Guerrero state, earning his colonelcy through documented battlefield service.
02When soldiers or civilians used feminine address, Robles Ávila was known to respond with his pistol drawn.
03The Mexican government formally recognized him as a veteran of the Revolution when he was in his nineties, in the 1970s.