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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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01Parton's $1 million donation to Vanderbilt in April 2020 was credited in Moderna's early vaccine research acknowledgments.
02When Tennessee proposed a capitol statue of her, she personally requested the legislature withdraw the bill.
03She established the Imagination Library in 1995, which has since mailed over 200 million free books to children.

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01The Praetorians demanded a donative of 15,000 sesterces per man to support Claudius — the first time the Guard sold the throne.
02Claudius conquered Britain in 43 CE, personally arriving for 16 days to accept the formal surrender — riding an elephant.
03His fourth wife Agrippina fed him poisoned mushrooms; he lingered, so a physician pushed a feather down his throat laced with more poison.

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01Stubby survived a mustard gas attack; he then learned to warn soldiers by pawing at their faces.
02He served in 17 battles across 18 months — more combat than most human soldiers in WWI.
03Stubby was promoted to sergeant after capturing a German spy by biting his backside.

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01Adrienne Mayor's 2000 book The First Fossil Hunters documented how Protoceratops nesting sites align with ancient griffin territory.
02Griffin legends specify a beaked, four-legged creature guarding gold — Protoceratops has a beak and lived near gold-bearing ore.
03Protoceratops laid eggs in spiral clutches; entire nesting colonies have been found in the Gobi, visibly eroding from dunes.

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01Colonel Connor reported 224 Shoshone dead; tribal oral histories count closer to 400, including infants.
02Soldiers destroyed 75 lodges and seized 1,000 bushels of grain, leaving survivors to freeze in January cold.
03Connor was promoted to brigadier general and praised in San Francisco newspapers within weeks of the massacre.

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A typical crossbow

01Pope Innocent II's 1139 ban called the crossbow 'hateful to God and unfit for Christians.'
02Richard I of England, who loved the crossbow, died in 1199 from a crossbow bolt at Châlus-Chabrol.
03A trained crossbowman needed no years of muscle-building — a peasant could kill a knight on day one.

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01Tyson bit off roughly 1 inch of Holyfield's right ear cartilage in round three.
02Ring official Mills Lane initially let the fight continue before stopping it 40 seconds later.
03Tyson was fined $3 million and had his boxing license revoked for 15 months.

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The National Ignition Facility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

01The 192-beam pulse lasts just 20 billionths of a second but briefly exceeds 100 million degrees Celsius.
02In December 2022, NIF produced 3.15 megajoules from a 2.05-megajoule input — the first fusion ignition.
03The target pellet of hydrogen fuel is just 2 millimeters in diameter, smaller than a pea.

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