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01Dworkin told the Meese Commission in 1986 that pornography was not speech but the act of violation itself.
02Her 1974 book 'Woman Hating' argued fairy tales functioned as binding instructions for female self-destruction.
03She co-authored an ordinance with Catharine MacKinnon allowing women to sue pornographers for civil rights damages; it was vetoed by Minneapolis's mayor twice.

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01Cho mailed a video manifesto to NBC News between his two attacks, a 2-hour window police did not close.
0232 people were killed; the Virginia Tech massacre remains the deadliest U.S. campus shooting on record.
03The shooting exposed a gap in federal law: Cho had been ruled mentally ill but passed background checks.

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Exterior view of the building known as Ransom Room, in Cajamarca where the Inca Atahualpa was confined.

01The ransom room measured roughly 22 feet long by 17 feet wide; gold filled it once, silver twice.
02Estimated value of Atahualpa's ransom: over $1.5 billion in today's terms — the largest ever paid.
03Pizarro's justification for execution was a fabricated charge of plotting rebellion after payment was complete.

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01Wilson took LSD at least a dozen times between 1956 and 1959, supplied by researchers at the Veterans Administration.
02He wrote to AA's trustees arguing that LSD could 'temporarily wipe out the ego' and accelerate the Twelfth Step.
03The AA board rejected his proposal; Wilson continued his LSD sessions privately while remaining AA's public moral authority.

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01Gravano's testimony in 1992 sent Gotti to life in prison after three prior acquittals the press called 'The Teflon Don.'
02After witness protection, he relocated to Arizona and built an ecstasy network moving 25,000–30,000 pills weekly through suburban Phoenix.
03He admitted killing 19 people, including his own brother-in-law Nicholas Scibetta — a detail he omitted in early testimony.

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01CIH was written by Taiwanese student Chen Ing-hau while attending Tatung University in 1998.
02It triggered on April 26, the Chernobyl disaster anniversary, earning the nickname "Chernobyl virus."
03Unlike most viruses, CIH overwrote BIOS firmware, making infected machines unable to boot at all.

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01Smith's memoir 'Just Kids' began as a deathbed promise to Robert Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989.
02She spent over twenty years writing the book before it was published and won the National Book Award in 2010.
03Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France — one of the country's highest cultural honors.

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01It was Flavor Aid, not Kool-Aid, laced with cyanide, Valium, and Phenergan in the vat.
02Aerial photography revealed the 918 corpses laid in deliberate concentric circles around Jones's throne-like chair.
03A tape recording of the death ceremony runs 44 minutes; children screaming are audible throughout.

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01The forged Bank of America letter was exposed in December 2003 when the bank confirmed the account did not exist.
02Parmalat's total debt hole reached roughly €14 billion — nearly twice the GDP of some EU member states at the time.
03Founder Calisto Tanzi admitted diverting at least €500 million into family-owned businesses and was sentenced to 18 years.

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