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01His forces captured the True Cross from Jerusalem in 614 AD and carried it to the Persian capital.
02He assassinated Khosrow II, the emperor who had commanded him, and seized the Sasanian throne.
03His reign lasted precisely 40 days — ended by assassination — making him Persia's shortest-ruling usurper.

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01The Mosquitoes flew at 50 feet to breach the outer wall, the inner wall, and the guard barracks separately.
02258 prisoners escaped; 102 were recaptured, but 79 Resistance members — scheduled for execution — reached safety.
03The mission was controversial: 102 French civilian prisoners were killed by the bombs, not the guards.

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01In 310 BC, Agathocles invaded Africa while Carthage besieged his city — the first European to attack Carthage on home soil.
02He started as a literal potter, was exiled twice for sedition, then seized Syracuse with a sword.
03He declared himself King of Sicily in 304 BC, the first Western ruler to adopt that specific Hellenistic title.

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01Sanders interrogated Shirō Ishii personally in autumn 1945, before any formal tribunal was convened.
02He accepted biological weapons research built on thousands of deaths in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
03Sanders never publicly disclosed the contents of the deal; the files stayed classified for over 30 years.

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01Mithridates's daily poison regimen — a compound later called 'Mithridate' — was considered a universal antidote for 1,500 years after his death.
02He fought three separate wars against Rome, surviving campaigns from 88 BC to 63 BC across Asia Minor and the Black Sea.
03At his final defeat, his suicide-by-poison failed entirely; he ordered a Gallic officer named Bituitus to kill him by sword.

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01Xuanzang traveled roughly 25,000 kilometers on foot across deserts, mountain passes, and war zones over 16 years.
02He returned in 645 CE with 657 Buddhist texts, 150 relics, and statues — requiring 22 horses just to carry the load.
03Emperor Taizong, who had initially refused him an exit permit, personally received him and funded a translation bureau that produced 1,335 translated volumes.

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The Zimmermann telegram as it was sent from Washington, D.C. , to Ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt , the German ambassador to Mexico .

01The telegram was decoded by British Naval Intelligence's Room 40, which had cracked German ciphers.
02Germany offered Mexico its 'lost territory' — Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona — as a wartime inducement.
03Zimmermann publicly confirmed the telegram's authenticity, making denial impossible and enraging American public opinion.

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01Koresh legally married 14-year-old Rachel Jones in Texas in 1984, with her parents' signed consent.
02The Branch Davidians had legally purchased over 300 firearms and 150 hand grenades before the 1993 raid.
03Koresh claimed exclusive right to impregnate all female members; he called their children 'the new Davidians.'

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01The Praetorians demanded a donative of 15,000 sesterces per man to support Claudius — the first time the Guard sold the throne.
02Claudius conquered Britain in 43 CE, personally arriving for 16 days to accept the formal surrender — riding an elephant.
03His fourth wife Agrippina fed him poisoned mushrooms; he lingered, so a physician pushed a feather down his throat laced with more poison.

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