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01Skeletons recovered from Henry VIII's ship Mary Rose show spines curved by longbow training.
02A war bow required a draw weight of 100–185 pounds — modern archers average 40.
03At Agincourt, 1415, English archers fired an estimated 60,000 arrows in the first minute.
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01Mahler co-founded the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Group) in 1970 as a Marxist revolutionary organization.
02Decades later, he publicly sent a Hitler-salute greeting card to the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
03By 2009, sentenced to over 12 years for Holocaust denial, he saluted the judge from the defendant's bench.
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01Juba's general Saburra lured Curio's 10,000-man army into a valley in 49 BC; almost none escaped; Curio refused evacuation and died there.
02After Thapsus, Juba found no town willing to shelter him; he dined with the Roman commander Petreius, then the two men fought a duel to the death — Juba killed Petreius, then had a slave finish him.
03Years earlier, Caesar had proposed a bill to annex Numidia; Juba's hatred of Caesar was therefore partly personal legislative grudge.
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01He was officially listed in Guinness from 1980 until his death in 1986 as age 120.
02Japanese researchers found the 1865 birth record belonged to a grandfather of the same name.
03His likely true birth year of 1880 would still place him among the oldest verified humans.
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01Edison Manufacturing Company filmed Topsy's electrocution; the film, 'Electrocuting an Elephant,' was commercially distributed that same year.
02Topsy killed three men in three years, including an abusive trainer who fed her a lit cigarette.
03She was given cyanide-laced carrots, then 6,600 volts — organizers had originally planned to hang her publicly.
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01Philby personally warned Soviet spy Donald Maclean in 1951, triggering a defection that consumed British intelligence for a decade.
02He was cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in Parliament in 1955 — an official denial that bought him eight more years.
03When he finally defected to Moscow in 1963, he had been operating for 30 years — recruited at Cambridge in the early 1930s.
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01Allison danced naked on a Cimarron saloon bar hours after killing a man, still wearing his gun belt.
02He allegedly pulled a dentist's tooth, then held the dentist down and pulled one of his teeth in retaliation.
03Allison died not in a gunfight but falling off a wagon, crushed by a wheel in 1887.
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01The scroll Schneemann read contained a real letter from critic Annette Michelson mocking her as merely 'erotic.'
02She performed it at 'An Evening of Erotic Film' in New York, 1975, standing naked on a table.
03The act reframed the vagina as an archive — a place from which critical theory could be formally extracted and cited.
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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.