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01Hetty Green's fortune of roughly $100 million in 1916 equals over $2.5 billion today — all self-managed.
02Her son Ned's leg was amputated after she allegedly delayed treatment to avoid medical fees.
03She lived in cheap boarding houses and ate cold oatmeal, despite being America's wealthiest woman.

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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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01Baca was nineteen when he arrested a drunken cowboy in Frisco, New Mexico, triggering the standoff in October 1884.
02The Texans fired an estimated 4,000 rounds into the jacal; Baca killed four men and wounded eight.
03Baca was tried for murder twice and acquitted both times — he later became a lawyer and then a sheriff.

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01The downed helicopter was a classified RQ-170-derived stealth variant; Pakistan allowed China to inspect the wreckage.
02Bin Laden was shot twice — once in the chest, once above the left eye — on the third floor.
03His body was buried at sea from USS Carl Vinson within 24 hours to prevent a shrine forming.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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01Albuquerque personally promised the treasure to King Manuel I of Portugal; the ship broke apart before it reached Lisbon.
02The cargo reportedly included four bronze elephants and a 30-kilogram golden throne seized from the Sultan of Malacca.
03Portugal and Indonesia both claim jurisdiction over the wreck, making any legitimate salvage legally impossible for over a century.

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01Hostages included foreign nationals seized in earlier raids, used as shields inside an active hospital.
02Local officials were later investigated for allegedly allowing Abu Sayyaf fighters to escape the cordon.
03A Congressional inquiry found evidence that military officers may have negotiated a passage out for the gunmen.

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01The golden eagle throne alone weighed two tonnes and was cast by a French artisan firm.
02France bankrolled a significant portion of the ceremony through subsidies and military cooperation funds.
03The 6,000 invited dignitaries included no sitting heads of state — nearly all declined to attend.

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Recreation of Martin Luther King Jr. 's cell in Birmingham Jail at the National Civil Rights Museum

01King wrote in the margins of a Birmingham newspaper because guards had initially denied him paper.
02The letter responds point by point to eight named white Alabama clergymen who called the protests 'unwise.'
03Circulated first as a pamphlet by the American Friends Service Committee before reaching millions of readers.

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