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01At Awazu in 1184, Tomoe Gozen decapitated enemy commander Onda no Moroshige in open battle.
02Her lover Minamoto no Yoshinaka commanded her to flee before dying, unwilling to die beside a woman.
03She appears in the Heike Monogatari described as 'a warrior worth a thousand' — then disappears entirely.

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01Casartelli's skull fractured on a roadside concrete drainage block on the Portet d'Aspet descent.
02He was 24, married, with a son born just months before the race.
03Lance Armstrong won the very next stage and pointed skyward at the line, for Casartelli.

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01AWB paramilitaries drove vehicles through the glass facade of the Mmabatho parliament in March 1994 to stop ANC integration.
02Three AWB men were wounded and then shot dead at point-blank range by a Bophuthatswana soldier while a TV crew filmed.
03Terre'Blanche, who ordered the incursion, was murdered by farm workers on his own estate with a panga in 2010.

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01At least 85 people were killed in 48 hours; the true number may exceed 200 — records were destroyed.
02Röhm and Hitler had been on a first-name basis since 1919 — a familiarity almost no one else was granted.
03The German cabinet retroactively legalized the murders three days later, calling them 'emergency state defense.'

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1920 advertisement for the Thor electric washing machine.

01The Thor, launched in 1908 by Hurley Machine Company, had no electrical insulation on its motor housing.
02Alva Fisher's patent drawings show live copper contacts positioned inches above the water basin.
03Early electric washing machine electrocutions were recorded in Chicago within the first year of Thor's sale.

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01Only the first kilometre of the cave is iced; the remaining 41 kilometres are limestone tunnels beyond the freeze zone.
02The cave was mapped by explorer Alexander von Mörk beginning in 1913; he was killed at Gallipoli in 1914, and his ashes were interred inside the cave.
03Air circulation within Eisriesenwelt keeps the ice formations frozen even when summer temperatures outside exceed 20°C.

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01Ali Hassan al-Majid ordered the Anfal campaign, killing an estimated 50,000–100,000 Kurds with chemical weapons.
02He personally signed the document declaring Kuwait Iraq's 19th province in August 1990.
03Convicted and sentenced to death four separate times before his 2010 execution by hanging.

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01WannaCry used EternalBlue, an NSA-developed exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
0280,000 NHS devices were hit; surgeries were cancelled and ambulances diverted across England.
03A 22-year-old named Marcus Hutchins halted the attack by registering a $10.69 domain name.

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Ferrofluid on glass, with a neodymium magnet underneath

01Ferrofluid was invented by NASA engineer Steve Papell in 1963 as a rocket fuel concept.
02Each spike is a self-organising structure where magnetic force and surface tension reach exact equilibrium.
03Ferrofluids now seal the rotating shafts of hard drives in virtually every computer ever made.

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