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01Albuquerque personally promised the treasure to King Manuel I of Portugal; the ship broke apart before it reached Lisbon.
02The cargo reportedly included four bronze elephants and a 30-kilogram golden throne seized from the Sultan of Malacca.
03Portugal and Indonesia both claim jurisdiction over the wreck, making any legitimate salvage legally impossible for over a century.

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01Doe was 28 years old and held no officer's rank when he personally led the executive mansion raid.
02The beach executions of 13 ministers on April 22, 1980 were filmed and broadcast internationally.
03Doe was himself captured in 1990, tortured, and killed on video by Prince Johnson's rebel faction.

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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.

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01The fundraiser cost $50,000 per plate; the bartender, Scott Prouty, filmed it on a Sony camera.
02Romney said the 47% who pay no income tax will 'vote for the president no matter what' — meaning Obama.
03Prouty came forward publicly on MSNBC three months after the election, explaining he acted on conscience.

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A Jake and Dinos Chapman fused mannequin piece from the exhibition Come and See at the Serpentine Gallery

01The original Goya plates date from 1810–1820; the Chapmans overpainted them in 2003.
02They titled the defaced series 'Insult to Injury,' inverting Goya's humanitarian intent entirely.
03Jake Chapman said ruining the Goyas was more creative than making new work from scratch.

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01The pronghorn's top speed of 55 mph is second only to the cheetah among all land animals.
02Its oversized trachea and lungs deliver oxygen at a rate far beyond what any current North American predator demands.
03The American cheetah, its evolutionary co-author, vanished with the Pleistocene megafauna around 10,000 BCE.

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01The Mirdita uprising of 1921 was partially funded by Italy, which supplied rifles to exploit the feud grievance diplomatically.
02The clan's leader, Gjon Markagjoni, invoked Kanun law to justify the revolt — not the League of Nations or sovereignty.
03Serbian forces suppressed the uprising within months, but the Kanun grievances were never formally addressed.

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01The letter was addressed not to a government but to a private citizen, Walter Rothschild.
02Britain simultaneously held agreements with Arab leaders implying contradictory promises over the same land.
03The phrase 'national home' was chosen deliberately — lawyers had argued 'state' carried too much legal weight.

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01Supreme's 2012 New Hampshire primary campaign included a glitter-bomb thrown at rival candidate Randall Terry during a public forum.
02He polled 833 votes in the 2016 New Hampshire Democratic primary, beating two candidates who spent real campaign money.
03His pony platform doubles as an economic policy: ponies as personal transportation to reduce fossil fuel dependence.

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