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01Bessus stabbed Darius III in 330 BC, left him dying in a cart, and claimed the Achaemenid throne.
02Alexander had Bessus mutilated — nose and ears removed — before sending him to Ecbatana for formal execution.
03Bessus ruled as 'Artaxerxes V' for roughly two years; no coin, no monument survives bearing that name.

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The phrase banana republic was coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry .

01United Fruit owned Guatemala's only railroad, its telegraph lines, and its Caribbean port.
02In 1954, the CIA overthrew President Árbenz after he tried to redistribute 234,000 acres of UFC land.
03O. Henry coined 'banana republic' in 1904 while hiding in Honduras to escape embezzlement charges.

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01Septimius Severus was born in Leptis Magna, modern Libya, becoming Rome's first African-born emperor.
02He died in Eboracum — modern York — while planning a deeper invasion of Caledonia.
03His deathbed advice to his sons: 'Enrich the soldiers; ignore everyone else.'

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01Wasendorf intercepted paper bank statements by rerouting his firm's mail to a personal P.O. box he controlled for two decades.
02The fraud totaled $215 million stolen from roughly 13,000 customers — discovered only when an automated ACH check failed.
03His 2012 suicide attempt failed; he was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison at age 64.

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01Antony left his own fleet and boarded a smaller vessel to chase Cleopatra's retreating squadron.
02Octavian captured or sank roughly 200 ships; Antony's abandoned army surrendered seven days later.
03Cleopatra had brought her personal treasury aboard — the fleet may have been covering a financial retreat.

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01One audience member cut off her clothes; another pressed a loaded pistol to her skull.
02After six hours, Abramović stood and walked toward the crowd — they fled rather than face her.
03Among the 72 objects: a rose, a scalpel, a bullet, and a feather boa.

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01The 'Nude Oblivion' patch was live within 24 hours of launch; it required no new geometry, only a texture swap.
02Bethesda's inclusion of the meshes forced the ESRB to re-rate Oblivion from Teen to Mature after release.
03The rating change cost retailers who had already shelved Teen-rated stock — a first in ESRB enforcement history.

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01The helmet was found in 263 fragments; conservators spent years reconstructing it like a three-dimensional iron jigsaw.
02The burial ship was 27 meters long and left no wood — only a ghost-stain of iron rivets in the soil.
03Edith Pretty, the landowner, gifted the entire hoard to the British Museum in 1939, one of the largest private donations in its history.

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The skull of Cacareco at São Paulo Zoo

01Cacareco's 100,000 votes made her the single highest vote-getter in the entire 1959 São Paulo council election.
02The rhino's name means 'rubbish' or 'worthless thing' in Brazilian Portuguese — the voters knew exactly what they were saying.
03Brazilian authorities annulled her votes, but the protest sparked international coverage of São Paulo's municipal disillusionment.

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