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01Brownmiller's 1975 formulation made all men structural beneficiaries of rape, not only perpetrators.
02She spent five years researching 'Against Our Will,' including reviewing military rape records from World War II and Bangladesh.
03Brownmiller was a founding member of Women Against Pornography, connecting rape theory directly to media production.

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Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

01At Carrhae, Surena killed roughly 20,000 Romans and captured 10,000, destroying Crassus's entire eastern army.
02He killed the triumvir Crassus — one-third of Rome's ruling power — ending Rome's richest man.
03King Orodes II had Surena executed shortly after the victory, reportedly fearing his general's growing prestige.

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01The St. Kinga's Chapel underground is 54 metres long, 18 metres wide, and 12 metres tall — hewn entirely from salt.
02The mine stretches across 300 kilometres of tunnels on nine levels, mined continuously since the 13th century.
03Salt chandeliers appear to glow amber because the mineral is slightly translucent; the light travels through the carved crystal.

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01Maradona scored the Hand of God goal and the 'Goal of the Century' in the same match, six minutes apart.
02English goalkeeper Peter Shilton protested immediately; the Tunisian referee awarded the goal anyway.
03Maradona only admitted the deliberate handball publicly in his 2000 autobiography.

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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03Little King's Story was made by a small team at Marvelous Entertainment and nearly went unpublished outside Japan.

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01Construction on the Ryugyong Hotel halted in 1992 with the shell complete; it sat visibly unfinished for 16 years.
02The building was so embarrassing that North Korean state maps omitted it entirely for nearly two decades.
03At 330 meters tall, it would be the 4th-tallest hotel on Earth if it ever opened; its 3,000 rooms remain empty.

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01Rioters, some deputized by police, used private planes to shoot at and drop incendiaries on Greenwood.
0235 blocks and over 1,200 homes were destroyed; 10,000 Black residents were left homeless overnight.
03The massacre was excluded from Oklahoma school curricula until a 2020 state mandate forced inclusion.

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01The 'ears' are rhinophores — chemosensory organs detecting dissolved molecules, not sound or balance.
02Sea bunnies are nudibranch sea slugs, reaching only 2 centimetres long, yet toxic enough to deter fish.
03Their bright coloration is aposematic — the prettier the pattern, the more potent the chemical warning.

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01The PDP-1 cost $120,000 in 1961; the students had no official authorization to monopolize it nightly.
02Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, and Steve Russell coded it across several months of stolen lab time.
03Its source code was the first program freely shared between institutions, predating open-source by decades.

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