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01The expedition's chief architect, Alcibiades, defected to Sparta before the fleet even arrived in Sicily.
02The entire Athenian force — roughly 38,000 men — was killed or enslaved by 413 BC.
03Thucydides called it the greatest single military disaster ever suffered by a Greek city-state.

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01Brancheau had 16 years at SeaWorld and was considered its most accomplished trainer at the time of her death.
02OSHA fined SeaWorld $75,000 and banned trainers from entering the water with orcas — a rule SeaWorld fought in court for years.
03Internal documents showed SeaWorld knew Tilikum had been involved in two prior deaths before Brancheau entered his pool.

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01One of the 72 objects on the table was a loaded pistol; a stranger pressed it to her head.
02After six hours she walked toward the audience; they fled rather than face her gaze.
03Her clothes were cut from her body with scissors; a thorn was pressed into her throat.

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01The group beheaded American missionary Martin Burnham's companion Gracia Burnham survived; Martin was killed in a rescue attempt in 2002.
02Abu Sayyaf received a $10 million ransom for 21 hostages taken from the Dos Palmas resort in 2001.
03The group's name translates to 'Bearer of the Sword' — beheading was doctrine, not improvisation.

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Illustration of a Hungarian Hajduk, from an 1703 book from Bavaria.

01Hajduks disbanded each winter to hide among ordinary villagers as farmers, reconvening as armed bands each spring.
02Serbian epic poetry named individual hajduks — Starina Novak, Mijat Tomić — canonizing their kills in oral verse cycles.
03Ottoman authorities offered cash bounties per hajduk head, yet local priests sometimes sheltered them inside monastery walls.

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01Ten people were killed and three wounded across Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. in 23 days.
02The snipers fired from a hole cut in the trunk of a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice Classic.
03Malvo was 17 at the time of the attacks; Muhammad was executed by Virginia in 2009.

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01Apollo was founded in 1990 with $400 million raised in just weeks after Drexel's collapse.
02Black was barred by the SEC from serving as an investment adviser — Apollo structured around the restriction.
03By 2023, Apollo Global Management oversaw roughly $600 billion in assets under management.

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01Golden eagle talons exert 750 psi on impact — exceeding the bite force of most large predators.
02Mongol hunters trained golden eagles to take wolves and foxes across the Central Asian steppe.
03The eagle appears on the flags or seals of over a dozen modern nation-states.

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An electric steam iron

01A standard sad iron weighed between 5 and 9 pounds and was heated directly on a coal or wood stove.
02Women typically owned three irons, cycling them on the stove to maintain continuous pressing heat.
03The word 'sad' derives from Old English 'sæd,' meaning dense or heavy — not the emotion.

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