01Some Molossian dogs were deployed carrying burning pitch pots strapped to their bodies into enemy lines.
02Roman commanders used them as a first wave — charging before any human soldier moved.
03The Molossus breed is the direct ancestor of mastiffs, Rottweilers, and Saint Bernards.
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01Mexican authorities granted Witkin access to unclaimed bodies at a Oaxacan morgue beginning in the 1980s.
02He has posed severed human heads as still-life objects alongside fruit, drapery, and classical sculpture props.
03His prints sell for up to $10,000 and are held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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01Cargill's annual revenues have exceeded $160 billion, surpassing the GDP of many mid-sized nations.
02Founded in 1865 in Conover, Iowa, the company has remained family-controlled for over 150 years.
03Cargill operates in 70 countries and handles an estimated 25% of all U.S. grain exports.
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01Players hum into the Wii remote's mic to pacify aggressive sharks — no weapons, no struggle.
02The game features over 300 real species, each with naturalist notes written in a diver's field-journal style.
03A character named Oceana joins the player on dives, pointing out creatures by name as they pass.
gnostek1 / 17Piles of new Notgeld banknotes awaiting distribution at the Reichsbank during the hyperinflation
01Weimar inflation peaked at 29,500% per month in October 1923; a postage stamp cost 10 billion marks.
02The German government printed money to pay World War I reparations; by 1923, paper notes were cheaper as fuel than firewood.
03A new currency, the Rentenmark, was introduced November 15, 1923 — one Rentenmark exchanged for one trillion old marks.
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01304 of the 918 dead at Jonestown were children, most administered poison by their own parents.
02Jones had rehearsed the mass death at least twice before as 'White Night' loyalty drills.
03Congressman Leo Ryan was shot dead on the airstrip minutes before the poisonings began.
gnostek1 / 3The epitome of the Rohan Master's art is the " Lamentation of the Virgin " (f. 135, Pl. 57) from the Hours of the Cross. The grieving Virgin cannot be consoled by the Apostle John , who looks up in consternation at a saddened God.
01The Grandes Heures de Rohan were painted around 1420, likely in Paris, by an anonymous master known only by the manuscript.
02The full-page Death miniature shows a naked man, skin already graying, exchanging a scroll of words directly with God.
03The manuscript's patron remains unknown — one of the most personal books of the Middle Ages has no confirmed name attached.
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01At peak capacity in 1942, Heart Mountain held 10,767 people — Wyoming's third-largest population center.
02The camp had its own high school, newspaper, and post office — standard civic infrastructure inside a prison.
0385 Heart Mountain men were convicted of draft evasion after refusing induction without restoration of citizenship rights.
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01Vanderbilt ordered New York Central trains to stop at the Harlem River bridge in January 1867, stranding passengers in the cold.
02He accumulated a fortune of $105 million by death in 1877 — the largest in U.S. history to that point.
03When a doctor told him to stop working, Vanderbilt replied he could not afford to stop; he was worth $100 million.