gnostek1 / 3Storefront display of Body Worlds exhibition in Amsterdam (2016)
01Gunther von Hagens exhibited a plastinated couple frozen mid-coitus, later removed after public outcry.
02The first Body Worlds show in Tokyo drew 2.9 million visitors in nine months.
03Donated bodies are injected with reactive polymer that replaces every cell's water and fat permanently.
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01NYPD detective Joseph Petrosino was shot dead in Piazza Marina, Palermo, on March 12, 1909.
02Cascio Ferro claimed personal credit for Petrosino's murder, allegedly boasting about it late in life.
03He is believed to be a primary model for Mario Puzo's Vito Corleone, the Godfather patriarch himself.
gnostek1 / 5The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection .
01The signal peaked at intensity 30 times above background noise at 1420 MHz — the hydrogen frequency.
02Big Ear was demolished in 1997; no other telescope was pointed at that sky position during the burst.
03A 2016 study proposed a pair of passing comets (266P/Christensen) as the source — most astronomers remain unconvinced.
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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.
gnostek1 / 15Illustrative woodcut from the Latin edition of Columbus's letter printed in Basel in 1494.
01Columbus wrote the letter during his return voyage, before even setting foot back on European soil.
02The letter was published in at least nine cities across Europe within a single year — 1493.
03It described inhabitants and islands in terms designed to appeal to Spanish royal investors, not explorers.
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01Ten people were killed and three wounded across Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. in 23 days.
02The snipers fired from a hole cut in the trunk of a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice Classic.
03Malvo was 17 at the time of the attacks; Muhammad was executed by Virginia in 2009.
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01At Awazu in 1184, Tomoe Gozen decapitated enemy commander Onda no Moroshige in open battle.
02Her lover Minamoto no Yoshinaka commanded her to flee before dying, unwilling to die beside a woman.
03She appears in the Heike Monogatari described as 'a warrior worth a thousand' — then disappears entirely.
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01The group detonated twelve pipe bombs in 2002, killing one woman, Marthie Kemp, in Soweto.
02Their manifesto, called 'Tom Langley's Plan', specified poisoning urban water reservoirs as the opening move.
03The trial lasted over a decade; several accused spent thirteen years in pre-trial detention.
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01Castra Regina was built in 179 CE to garrison Legio III Italica on the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
02The fort's massive sandstone corner tower, the Porta Praetoria, still rises above street level in central Regensburg today.
03Regensburg's medieval street grid follows the Roman fort's internal axes — the legionary plan still organizes a living city.