01Custer refused a Gatling gun battery before the march, fearing it would slow him down.
02His column of 210 men was wiped out in under an hour on June 25, 1876.
03Sitting Bull had predicted the exact outcome in a Sun Dance vision days before the battle.
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01Alexander charged at Darius personally with the Companion Cavalry — Darius fled, abandoning his mother, wife, and children.
02Gaugamela was fought in 331 BC on a plain Darius chose and had specially flattened for his scythed chariots.
03After Gaugamela, Darius was murdered by his own satrap Bessus before Alexander could capture him.
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01The Old Norse word 'berserkr' likely means 'bear-shirt' — the warrior wore the animal's hide and its soul.
02King Harald Fairhair used berserkers as a personal shock unit at the Battle of Hafrsfjord, c. 872 AD.
03Later Norse law explicitly outlawed berserk behavior — it was treated as a crime once the state no longer needed it.
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01Six Horsa gliders landed within 47 meters of the bridge; the first touched down at 00:16, 45 minutes before H-Hour.
02The entire bridge was seized in under 10 minutes; only two British soldiers died in the assault itself.
03Pegasus Bridge was renamed after the Airborne's winged-horse emblem; a café owner, Arlette Gondrée, served the first liberated French civilian champagne.
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01Donaghy bet on 57 NBA games between 2005 and 2007, going 70–80% accurate due to inside information.
02He passed tips to Thomas Martino, a childhood friend with mob connections, using pre-paid burner phones.
03Donaghy served 15 months in federal prison; his allegations that the NBA itself manipulated playoff games were never formally investigated.
gnostek1 / 11A tulip, known as "the Viceroy" ( viseroij ), displayed in the 1637 Dutch catalogue Verzameling van een Meenigte Tulipaanen ("Collection of a Crowd of Tulips"). Its bulb was offered for sale for between 3,000 and 4,200 guilders (florins)…
01The Semper Augustus, the most prized tulip, fetched 10,000 guilders in early 1637 — roughly 10 years of a skilled craftsman's wages.
02Futures contracts for tulip bulbs still underground were being traded in taverns; buyers never saw the actual bulb.
03By May 1637, Haarlem courts ruled tulip contracts unenforceable, effectively wiping out every outstanding futures position.
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01Vlad impaled 20,000 Ottoman soldiers on stakes outside Târgoviște in 1462.
02Mehmed II, conqueror of Constantinople, retreated after seeing the forest of bodies.
03Vlad was imprisoned twice by Christian allies who feared him more than the Ottomans did.