01The 72 objects included a scalpel, a whip, honey, a feather, a rose, and one loaded pistol.
02By hour four, a stranger had cut her throat with a razor blade and licked the blood.
03She was weeping silently when the six hours ended — unaware she had been crying the whole time.
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01Donaghy placed bets through a childhood friend who relayed picks to a professional gambler named James Battista.
02He earned roughly $30,000 from his gambling operation before FBI wiretaps caught him.
03Donaghy later alleged that other referees also fixed games — the NBA denied it.
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01Cridland has had medical nerve-conduction studies confirm genuine absence of pain response, not performance.
02He passes rods through his throat without hitting the trachea or carotid by long practice of anatomy.
03He performs under the name Zamora the Torture King and has toured since the 1980s.
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01408 civilians died — mostly women and children sheltering from airstrikes in Baghdad's Amiriyah district.
02The bunker was built by a Finnish firm to NATO specifications; the US knew its layout.
03Charred silhouettes of bodies are still visible on the interior walls, preserved as a memorial.
gnostek1 / 18The seal of Mani , the oldest known Manichaean art
01Mani was reportedly flayed and his stuffed skin hung at the city gate of Gundeshapur around 274–277 CE.
02Manichaean manuscripts written in at least seven scripts — including Sogdian, Coptic, and Chinese — survived the purges.
03A Manichaean community in the Chinese city of Quanzhou was still practicing openly as late as the 14th century.
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01Juba's general Saburra lured Curio's 10,000-man army into a valley in 49 BC; almost none escaped; Curio refused evacuation and died there.
02After Thapsus, Juba found no town willing to shelter him; he dined with the Roman commander Petreius, then the two men fought a duel to the death — Juba killed Petreius, then had a slave finish him.
03Years earlier, Caesar had proposed a bill to annex Numidia; Juba's hatred of Caesar was therefore partly personal legislative grudge.
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01Philby personally warned Soviet spy Donald Maclean in 1951, triggering a defection that consumed British intelligence for a decade.
02He was cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in Parliament in 1955 — an official denial that bought him eight more years.
03When he finally defected to Moscow in 1963, he had been operating for 30 years — recruited at Cambridge in the early 1930s.
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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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01The mission 'Death from Above' is unwinnable by design; the player's character dies regardless of input.
02The level was set in an unnamed Middle Eastern city destroyed by a 10-kiloton nuclear detonation.
03Call of Duty 4 sold over 14 million copies — its unwinnable death scene played by more people than any prior war film audience.