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01Serrano received a $15,000 NEA-affiliated award for 'Piss Christ' in 1987 before the controversy erupted.
02Senator Jesse Helms displayed the photograph on the Senate floor in 1989 and demanded NEA funding be stripped.
03A physical print was attacked with hammers by Catholic protesters in Avignon, France, in April 2011.

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01The Fort Worth Five portrait was taken at John Swartz's studio in November 1900, weeks after a major train robbery.
02Pinkerton agents distributed the photo so widely that Butch Cassidy and Sundance fled to Argentina in 1901.
03The gang had robbed a Union Pacific train at Tipton, Wyoming for $55,000 just months before posing for the portrait.

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01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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01The photograph is called 'Piss Christ' and was printed at 60 × 40 inches.
02U.S. senators read the title aloud on the Senate floor in 1989 as evidence of federal depravity.
03A print was physically attacked with hammers by protesters in Avignon, France, in 2011.

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01Howard Scott Warshaw had 5.5 weeks to code it; a normal Atari game took 6–9 months.
02Atari pressed roughly 12 million cartridges for a console with only 10 million owners.
03A 2014 dig in Alamogordo pulled 1,300 cartridges from concrete-sealed desert landfill.

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01Prisoners were staked in open fields and hit with shrapnel grenades to induce controlled wound infections.
02Gangrene progression was logged hour-by-hour to produce infection-rate data usable in battlefield planning.
03The same bacterial strain, Clostridium perfringens, can kill a limb in under six hours without treatment.

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01Empress Fu was dragged past Emperor Xian in the corridor to her execution; he could not intervene.
02Cao Cao forced Xian to marry his own daughter after murdering Empress Fu, consolidating control through the bedchamber.
03Emperor Xian outlived the Han dynasty by fourteen years, dying peacefully in 234 CE as a feudal prince.

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01Buckner played on severely damaged ankles, wearing high-top cleats for support that may have slowed his glove.
02Manager John McNamara later admitted he meant to pull Buckner for defense but forgot in the excitement.
03The Red Sox led 5–3 in the 10th inning with two outs and two strikes on the batter before the error.

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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.

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