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01Chiura Obata, a UC Berkeley art professor, founded the Topaz Art School inside the internment camp in 1942.
02James Wakasa, 63, was shot and killed by a guard at Topaz in April 1943 for walking near the perimeter fence.
03Over 600 students enrolled in the art school, producing work that is now held in major American museum collections.

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The Anatomical Zodiac Man

01The Très Riches Heures was commissioned by Jean, Duke of Berry, and painted by the Limbourg brothers between 1412 and 1416.
02The February page is the earliest known Western painting to depict snow with meteorological accuracy, including drifted drifts and bare trees.
03The Limbourg brothers — all three — died in 1416, likely of plague, leaving the manuscript unfinished for sixty years.

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01Travis weighed 200 pounds and had lived as a near-human companion — riding in cars, drinking wine, using a computer.
02Charla Nash required a full face transplant; she testified before Congress to ban private primate ownership in 2009.
03Police shot Travis four times; he retreated to his cage and died there — the 911 call is public record.

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Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid

01The Minoan bull-leaping fresco at Knossos, c. 1450 BC, shows both male and female athletes mid-vault.
02The Spanish bullfight's three-act structure — tercio de varas, banderillas, faena — mirrors ancient sacrificial killing sequences.
03Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' documented 1,200 bulls killed in a single Madrid season in the 1920s.

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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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01The dividing line between Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd runs through Germany to this day, each operating independently.
02Together the two chains operate over 10,000 stores across more than 20 countries.
03Theo Albrecht was kidnapped in 1971 and held for 17 days before being released for a reported ransom of 7 million DM.

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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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01Macías banned fishing boats and private radios, sealing 300,000 people inside his personal terror state.
02He declared himself 'God' and had churches display the slogan: 'There is no God other than Macías.'
03An estimated 80,000 people were killed during his eleven-year rule — roughly a quarter of the population.

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01He documented all 100 murders in a diary and photographed each victim before disposal in acid.
02His sentence: to be strangled, cut into 100 pieces, and dissolved in acid — identical to his method.
03He was found dead in his cell in 2001, officially ruled a suicide, before the sentence could be executed.

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