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01Ishigo voluntarily entered Poston Relocation Center in 1942 despite being white and legally exempt from internment.
02She produced hundreds of sketches and watercolors documenting daily camp life — most drawn on scavenged paper.
03After the war, she and Arthur lived in poverty in Los Angeles; her artwork was nearly lost before rediscovery in the 1970s.

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01Skanderbeg won 25 consecutive battles against the Ottomans between 1443 and his death in 1468.
02He was taken from his Christian family at age nine to serve as an elite Ottoman soldier.
03Pope Calixtus III called him 'Champion of Christendom'; his helmet and sword survive in Vienna today.

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A block of silica aerogel in a hand.

01Silica aerogel holds 15 Guinness World Records, including lowest-density solid ever produced at 1.9 mg/cm³.
02NASA used aerogel blankets to insulate the Mars Pathfinder rover against temperatures of −80 °C.
03Aerogel can support up to 4,000 times its own weight before the nano-silica structure collapses.

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01The 1281 invasion fleet numbered an estimated 4,400 ships — one of history's largest amphibious forces.
02Japanese defenders held the Mongols at bay for 53 days before the typhoon finished the job.
03The word 'kamikaze' was born here — then repurposed by Japanese pilots 663 years later.

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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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01Getty's grandson John Paul Getty III was 16 when kidnapped in Rome in July 1973.
02The severed ear and a lock of hair arrived at a Rome newspaper six weeks into the standoff.
03Getty Sr. lent his son the final ransom sum at 4% interest — repayment was contractually required.

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Radium painters working in a factory

01Workers were told radium was safe; they painted it on their nails and teeth for fun after shifts.
02Grace Fryer's jaw had to be removed in pieces — bone had turned to soft, glowing pulp.
03The 1928 lawsuit by five 'Radium Girls' directly shaped the first U.S. occupational disease labor laws.

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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.

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Ecclesiastes 3 in the Leningrad Codex

01Rabbis at the Council of Jamnia, c. 90 CE, debated removing Ecclesiastes from the Hebrew Bible as heretical.
02The word 'hebel,' meaning vapor or breath, appears 38 times — it is the name of Abel, whom Cain killed.
03The final two verses, urging obedience to God, are considered by most scholars to be a later editorial addition.

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