01One of the 72 objects on the table was a loaded pistol; a stranger pressed it to her head.
02After six hours she walked toward the audience; they fled rather than face her gaze.
03Her clothes were cut from her body with scissors; a thorn was pressed into her throat.
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01Two masked gunmen fired at least ten rounds; Anastasia lunged at his own reflection in the mirror, not the shooters.
02His bodyguard, Anthony Coppola, was sent away minutes before the shooting — never charged.
03The hit was approved by Vito Genovese to seize control from Anastasia's patron Frank Costello, reshaping the entire Commission.
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01Clive's force at Plassey numbered roughly 3,000; the Nawab's army stood at over 50,000, yet losses were fewer than 80 British dead.
02Mir Jafar's reward was the throne of Bengal — but the East India Company removed and reinstated him twice within six years.
03The Bengali term 'Mir Jafar' remains a living insult for traitor, used in political discourse to this day.
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01Super Mario Galaxy's soundtrack was performed live by a full orchestra — a first for the Mario series.
02The game's smallest planets are roughly 10 feet across in scale, making Mario a giant on his own worlds.
03A second player could join solely to catch and hold stardust, a gentle cooperative role for a younger sibling.
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01Ocaña's lead of over 9 minutes on Merckx was the largest in Tour history when he crashed out.
02The crash on the Col de Mente triggered a pileup; Merckx himself rode into the fallen Ocaña.
03Merckx declined to pull on the yellow jersey the following morning in an unscripted act of mourning.
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01Vercingetorix united over thirty Gallic tribes — the only leader ever to do so against Rome in the Gallic Wars.
02He was held in the Tullianum prison in Rome for six years before being paraded in Caesar's triumph and executed in 46 BC.
03At Alesia, Vercingetorix ordered civilians expelled from the town to save food; Caesar refused to let them through his lines and they starved in the gap.
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01The Friend refused all gendered pronouns for over forty years, insisting the prior self had literally ceased to exist.
02At the movement's height, the Friend led a community of hundreds at Jerusalem, New York, founded in 1788.
03Colonial crowds gathered in thousands to hear the Friend preach — a figure who claimed to carry no earthly name or sex.
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01The inner Theodosian wall stood 12 metres tall and 5 metres thick, backed by a second outer wall and a flooded moat.
02The walls repelled 23 recorded sieges over 1,040 years — by Avars, Arabs, Bulgars, Russians, and Crusaders.
03On 29 May 1453, Ottoman bombards firing 600-kilogram stone balls opened the first breach in the wall's entire history.
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01South Korean authorities killed an estimated 60,000–100,000 of their own civilians in weeks during summer 1950.
02Victims included Bodo League members — a government-run 're-education' program whose enrollees were then deemed threats.
03The South Korean government denied the massacres for over 50 years; a truth commission confirmed them in 2008.