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01The 1969 hearing panel included 14 men and one nun; no woman with a personal stake in abortion law was invited to speak.
02Redstockings co-founder Shulamith Firestone was 24 when she helped organize the disruption, months after co-founding the group.
03Their 'Consciousness-Raising' model — women sharing personal experience as political data — was adopted globally within three years.

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Predjama Castle

01Predjama Castle sits 123 metres up a sheer cliff, with the cave forming its rear wall and natural roof.
02Knight Erasmus of Lueg withstood a year-long siege in 1484 by using a hidden cave passage to receive food from the forest above.
03The castle's current form dates to 1570 and remains one of the largest cave castles in the world.

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01The larvae of Piophila casei jump up to 15 cm when threatened; eye protection is recommended while eating.
02Eating it after maggots have died is considered unsafe — the living state signals the cheese is still 'good.'
03The EU banned casu martzu; Sardinians got it listed as a traditional food product to sidestep the ruling.

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01A judge burned one of Schiele's drawings by candleflame in open court during his 1912 trial in Neulengbach.
02He was held for 24 days before his sentence; during confinement he made 13 drawings documenting his cell.
03Several of his young models were between 12 and 14 years old; he had sought parental permission for some sessions.

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01116 people died in the blast and subsequent fire; Abu Sayyaf was paid roughly $400 to execute the attack.
02The bomb was concealed inside a television set stored in the vessel's cargo hold.
03It remains the single deadliest terrorist attack on a civilian vessel in peacetime, worldwide.

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01King Corobo recruits citizens by walking up and bowing to them, after which they follow him voluntarily.
02The game's soundtrack samples and recomposes themes from Dvořák, Offenbach, and Beethoven throughout its playtime.
03Little King's Story was made by a small team at Marvelous Entertainment and nearly went unpublished outside Japan.

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01The repository was designed to warn off humans for 10,000 years using non-linguistic symbols.
02Obama's DOE withdrew the license application in 2010, stranding $15 billion of completed work.
03High-level waste currently sits in temporary pools at 75 reactor sites across 33 U.S. states.

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Smoke plumes from a few of the Kuwaiti Oil Fires on April 7, 1991, as seen from Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-37 .

01730 wells burned simultaneously, consuming an estimated 6 million barrels of oil per day at peak.
02The smoke plume turned daylight into darkness across Kuwait and reached as far as Kashmir.
03Legendary firefighter Red Adair led one of the first teams; the last well was capped November 6, 1991.

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01The column's 190-metre relief spiral shows explicit scenes of decapitation and mass drowning of Germanic prisoners.
02A hermit was permitted to inhabit the column's interior chamber for an extended period in the medieval era.
03Pope Sixtus V replaced Aurelius's statue at the top with one of Saint Paul in 1589.

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