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01The Atocha sank in 1622 carrying 40 tons of silver, 115 gold bars, and 350 chests of unregistered contraband.
02Fisher's son Kane and daughter-in-law Angel died July 19, 1975 when the salvage vessel Northwind rolled over at night.
03Fisher's daily battle cry for sixteen years was 'Today's the day' — he said it the morning of the main find.

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01Sejanus had eliminated Tiberius's son Drusus — likely by poison — to clear his own path to power.
02His children were executed; his daughter, still a virgin, was first assaulted by the executioner because Roman law forbade killing virgins.
03After his fall, the Senate ordered every statue, inscription, and monument bearing his name destroyed — a full damnatio memoriae.

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01Freud's 1884 paper 'Über Coca' celebrated cocaine as a cure for morphine addiction; he prescribed it directly to patients.
02His colleague Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, given cocaine by Freud to treat morphine dependence, died in 1891 of cocaine toxicity.
03Freud's biographer Ernest Jones downplayed the cocaine episode for decades; the full record was not examined until the 1970s.

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01Black Tuesday, October 29, saw 16 million shares sold; the Dow lost 12% of its value in a single session.
02U.S. GDP fell 30% between 1929 and 1933; unemployment reached 25% — one in four American workers.
03The crash wiped out roughly $30 billion in market value within two weeks, equivalent to the entire U.S. GDP at the time.

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01A German rifle bullet severed Inouye's arm mid-throw; he finished the throw with his other hand.
02He was denied service at a barbershop while still in uniform on his way home from the war.
03Inouye served 49 years in the U.S. Senate — the second-longest-serving senator in history at his death.

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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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01Sophiatown was one of few areas where Black South Africans could own freehold property; that right was erased overnight.
02The removal began on 9 February 1955 at 4 a.m.; two thousand police oversaw the first convoy of trucks.
03The suburb was renamed 'Triomf' in 1960 and filled with white working-class housing; the name wasn't reverted until 2006.

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Decimation. Etching by William Hogarth in Beaver's Roman Military Punishments (1725)

01Decimated soldiers were forced to eat barley — a diet associated with animals — as ongoing humiliation.
02The condemned drew lots from a helmet; your closest comrades then beat you to death with clubs.
03Crassus decimated 500 men after Spartacus routed two of his legions in 71 BCE.

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01The blood on the boys' faces had to be wiped with wool soaked in milk — the boys were required to laugh.
02Women deliberately lined the streets to be struck by the goat-hide thongs, believing it guaranteed fertility.
03Pope Gelasius I tried to suppress Lupercalia in 494 AD, writing a furious letter that confirms it was still happening.

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