Jean-Bédel Bokassa — gnostek

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01The coronation consumed $22 million, roughly one-third of the entire country's GDP for that year.
02Bokassa personally beat schoolchildren with a cane during the 1979 Bangui massacre that finally ended French support.
03After exile and return, a Central African court sentenced him to death — then commuted it; he died free in Paris, 1996.

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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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01Quinn's pager pinged 14 times the night he vanished — all from a single unidentified number.
02The live puppy found in Quinn's car had no known owner and was never traced to any source.
03Owens confessed in 2017 to killing Quinn; he had already been in prison for an unrelated cannibalism case.

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01Bessus stabbed Darius III in 330 BC, left him dying in a cart, and claimed the Achaemenid throne.
02Alexander had Bessus mutilated — nose and ears removed — before sending him to Ecbatana for formal execution.
03Bessus ruled as 'Artaxerxes V' for roughly two years; no coin, no monument survives bearing that name.

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01Cassander executed Roxane and her son Alexander IV — Alexander the Great's only child — in 309 BC.
02He had Olympias killed by relatives of her own victims, keeping his own hands technically clean.
03Cassander founded Thessalonica, named for his wife — a city that still exists — while erasing a dynasty.

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Recreation of Martin Luther King Jr. 's cell in Birmingham Jail at the National Civil Rights Museum

01King wrote in the margins of a Birmingham newspaper because guards had initially denied him paper.
02The letter responds point by point to eight named white Alabama clergymen who called the protests 'unwise.'
03Circulated first as a pamphlet by the American Friends Service Committee before reaching millions of readers.

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Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

01Jonah is the only biblical prophet sent to a foreign enemy city — Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire.
02He successfully converts 120,000 Ninevites, then sits down and wishes he were dead out of spite.
03The fish is mentioned in three verses; Jonah's tantrum over a dead gourd plant gets an entire chapter.

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01He consumed the Cessna 150 between 1978 and 1980, eating roughly 1 kg of metal per day.
02His stomach lining was twice the normal thickness, confirmed by endoscopy, allowing metal passage.
03Ironically, bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him ill; aircraft aluminum did not.

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01The decree was first invoked in 121 BC to justify killing Gaius Gracchus and 3,000 of his supporters.
02It suspended habeas corpus entirely — no trial, no appeal, just consular authority to execute.
03Caesar crossed the Rubicon partly because he feared a senatus consultum ultimum would be levelled at him.

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