gnostek1 / 2Hellenistic bronze of Sleeping Eros , the type of work that Verres extorted from Sicilian collectors
01Verres looted the statue of Diana from Segesta, a piece so famous its absence was marked in city records.
02Cicero's second speech against Verres was never delivered in court — Verres fled Rome before it could be read aloud.
03Verres was proscribed and executed in 43 BC — reportedly because Mark Antony wanted his art collection.
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01At least 85 people were killed in 48 hours; the true number may exceed 200 — records were destroyed.
02Röhm and Hitler had been on a first-name basis since 1919 — a familiarity almost no one else was granted.
03The German cabinet retroactively legalized the murders three days later, calling them 'emergency state defense.'
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01Drexel pleaded guilty to six felony counts in December 1988 and agreed to pay $650 million in fines.
02The firm filed for bankruptcy on February 13, 1990 — 14 months after the settlement — laying off 5,000 employees.
03At its peak Drexel controlled 45% of the entire U.S. high-yield bond market.
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01She underwent nine cosmetic surgeries between 1990 and 1993, all filmed and transmitted to galleries worldwide.
02During operations she read aloud from Lacan, Artaud, and Kristeva — refusing general anesthesia so she could perform.
03One implant placed a bump above each eyebrow; she modeled them on a Renaissance Venus and Diana.
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01Mario Kart Wii sold 37.38 million copies, making it the best-selling Mario Kart entry in the series.
02The included Wii Wheel cost Nintendo almost nothing to manufacture, yet players consistently rated it as satisfying.
03Online play via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection let players race strangers worldwide — a first for console Mario Kart.
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01Gödel was 25 when he published the incompleteness theorems in 1931, ending Hilbert's formalist program.
02He encoded mathematical statements as numbers — 'Gödel numbering' — so a system could talk about itself.
03The Second Theorem: no consistent system can prove its own consistency — foundations float free.
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01The ISS has been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 — over 24 unbroken years.
02Astronauts lose up to 1–2% bone density per month; a six-month mission equals a decade of aging.
03The station's solar arrays cover 2,500 square meters — larger than a U.S. football field.
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01Dworkin quoted Hustler headlines verbatim, arguing the text constituted explicit statements of male intent toward women, not fantasy.
02She analyzed a 1978 Hustler cartoon depicting a meat grinder producing female flesh labeled 'All-American Maid,' treating it as political declaration.
03The book proposed that pornography met the legal definition of sex discrimination and should be actionable under civil rights law — a claim Catharine MacKinnon later codified into an ordinance.
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01Acker's 'Great Expectations' (1982) plagiarized Dickens, Proust, and Harold Robbins in a single text without quotation marks.
02She had breast implants removed on camera in the 1990s and wrote about it as a theory of bodily authorship.
03Her novel 'Blood and Guts in High School' was banned in West Germany for explicit illustrations she drew herself.