gnostek1 / 14Heracles , wearing his characteristic lion-skin, club in right hand, leash in left, presenting a three-headed Cerberus, snakes coiling from his snouts, necks and front paws, to a frightened Eurystheus hiding in a giant pot. Caeretan hydria…
01Honey cakes called 'meli' were physically placed in corpses' mouths as payment to pass Cerberus.
02Hercules' twelfth labor was to drag Cerberus from Hades alive — using no weapons.
03Orpheus bypassed Cerberus not with force but by playing his lyre until the dog fell asleep.
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01Taichang Emperor died on September 26, 1620 — his 29th day on the throne, cause officially undetermined.
02Court official Li Kezhuo supplied the red pills; he was later exiled but the formula remained secret.
03The 'Red Pill Case' became one of the Three Great Cases of the Wanli era, debated for centuries.
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01Crowley led the Ordo Templi Orientis and published its graded initiation rites while in active heroin dependency.
02He attempted a formal cure at a German sanatorium in 1930 and relapsed within weeks of discharge.
03Several of Crowley's closest disciples developed severe opiate addictions after following his 'magical' drug regimens.
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01All 374 signatories publicly confessed to illegal abortion in a country where the act was punishable under Paragraph 218, a law dating to 1871.
02Film star Romy Schneider was among the signatories, making a front-page criminal confession to an audience of millions.
03The campaign was organized by Alice Schwarzer and directly modeled on Simone de Beauvoir's 1971 'Manifesto of the 343' in France.
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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.
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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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01AWB members stormed the Kempton Park CODESA negotiations in 1993, driving an armored vehicle through the glass entrance.
02Three AWB members were shot dead by a lone Black police officer during the Bophuthatswana invasion in 1994.
03Terre'Blanche was photographed passed out drunk in a Johannesburg gutter in 2001, ending the movement's mystique.
gnostek1 / 11The DU penetrator of a 30 mm round from the GAU-8 Avenger
01Approximately 300 tons of depleted uranium ammunition were expended by US forces during the 1991 campaign.
02DU penetrators burn on impact, scattering radioactive oxide dust inhaled by soldiers and civilians alike.
03Basra pediatric wards recorded a sharp rise in childhood leukemia and birth defects through the 1990s.
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01The fundraiser cost $50,000 per plate; the bartender, Scott Prouty, filmed it on a Sony camera.
02Romney said the 47% who pay no income tax will 'vote for the president no matter what' — meaning Obama.
03Prouty came forward publicly on MSNBC three months after the election, explaining he acted on conscience.