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01Tesem hounds received individual name-stelae — engraved stone markers — inside royal Egyptian tombs.
02Amenhotep II had four Tesem dogs buried alongside him in his tomb at the Valley of the Kings.
03Pre-dynastic pottery from 4000 BCE shows Tesem dogs on leashes — among the earliest leash depictions on Earth.

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Sir Geoffrey Luttrell , mounted, being assisted by his wife and daughter-in-law. Folio 202v.

01The Luttrell Psalter was created around 1320–1340 for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of Irnham, Lincolnshire, at a cost of £32.
02Marginalia include a man with a wheel for a body, a dog playing bagpipes, and a knight genuinely losing to a giant snail.
03The agricultural scenes are so detailed that historians reconstruct 14th-century plowing technique, crop rotation, and harness design from its pages.

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01Titus reportedly wept at dinner if he had performed no act of generosity that day.
02He commanded the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD, during which the Second Temple was destroyed.
03He reigned only 26 months before dying of fever at 41; his brother Domitian may have hastened his death.

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01Fish mailed the Budd family a letter in 1934 describing Grace's flesh as 'sweet and tender.'
02X-rays before his execution revealed 29 needles he had inserted into his own groin over the years.
03He claimed to have 'had children in every state,' suggesting up to 100 victims across decades.

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Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

01Jonah is the only biblical prophet sent to a foreign enemy city — Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire.
02He successfully converts 120,000 Ninevites, then sits down and wishes he were dead out of spite.
03The fish is mentioned in three verses; Jonah's tantrum over a dead gourd plant gets an entire chapter.

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01After botched surgery, Cato pulled his own intestines out with his hands rather than accept Caesar's mercy.
02Caesar reportedly wept when told of Cato's death, saying 'I begrudge you this death' — his only rival for moral authority.
03Cato read Plato's Phaedo on the immortality of the soul twice on the night he killed himself, then drew his sword.

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01Egil killed a boy at a childhood game, age seven; his mother praised him as future-Viking material.
02Captured by King Eiríkr Bloodaxe, Egil composed 'Höfuðlausn' overnight — the poem bought his head.
03He reportedly suffered a disfiguring bone disease now theorized as Paget's disease of the skull.

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01Hector Pieterson was the first child killed in the Soweto Uprising; he was shot at approximately 10 a.m. on June 16, 1976.
02Photographer Sam Nzima was ordered by his editor to hand over the negatives; he hid a copy and smuggled it out.
03Mbuyisa Makhubo, the teenager carrying Hector in the photograph, fled South Africa and was never seen again after 1978.

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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.

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