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01The 'menu' listed prices in hundreds of thousands: a $140,000 bribe bought $16 million in defense contracts.
02Bribes included a 42-foot yacht named 'Duke-Stir,' antique commodes, and a $7,200 Victorian dresser.
03Cunningham, a decorated Vietnam ace with 5 aerial kills, wept openly when entering his guilty plea in 2005.

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A typical crossbow

01Pope Innocent II's 1139 ban called the crossbow 'hateful to God and unfit for Christians.'
02Richard I of England, who loved the crossbow, died in 1199 from a crossbow bolt at Châlus-Chabrol.
03A trained crossbowman needed no years of muscle-building — a peasant could kill a knight on day one.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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01Burden gave a single instruction: 'Shoot me.' The assistant complied from 15 feet away.
02No hospital record was filed immediately; Burden treated the wound himself that night.
03The piece, 'Shoot,' appeared in no gallery at the time — it was performed in a rented garage.

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01Hobby Lobby paid $3 million in civil fines and forfeited 5,500 artifacts to the U.S. government in 2017.
02The smuggled cuneiform tablets and cylinder seals entered the U.S. labeled as 'tile samples' from Israel.
03The Museum of the Bible, funded largely by the Green family, opened in 2017 just blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

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A procession in the San Callistus catacombs in Rome , painted by Alberto Pisa

01The catacombs hold roughly 8,000 bodies, the oldest dating to 1599 when monks discovered their dead preserved naturally.
02Rosalia Lombardo, embalmed in 1920 at age two, is still so lifelike she is called 'the Sleeping Beauty of Palermo.'
03Sections are divided by social rank: priests, professionals, virgins, and children each occupy separate corridors.

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01Michael told his companion 'I think I can make it' before swimming an estimated 12 miles to shore.
02Journalist Carl Hoffman found oral testimony in 2014 from Asmat elders describing eating a white man matching Rockefeller's description.
03The Dutch colonial government quietly suppressed a 1961 investigation report implicating specific villages.

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01The Zulu impi encircled the British camp in under two hours on January 22, 1879.
02Ammunition screws were rusted shut and quartermasters demanded signed requisitions mid-battle, leaving companies dry.
031,329 British and allied soldiers were killed — the largest single defeat of the Victorian army.

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01Ishii commanded a staff of over 3,000 scientists, doctors, and support personnel at Pingfang alone.
02MacArthur's office confirmed in a 1947 memo that Ishii's immunity was exchanged for his complete experimental archive.
03Ishii died of throat cancer in Tokyo in 1959, never charged, never publicly named by Japanese authorities.

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