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01Schwarzman's 2007 birthday party at the Park Avenue Armory cost an estimated $3 million and featured Rod Stewart.
02Blackstone's IPO that same year valued Schwarzman's personal stake at roughly $7.8 billion.
03He later donated $100 million to Yale, $150 million to MIT, and $188 million to Oxford — each naming a building.

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01Crowley led the Ordo Templi Orientis and published its graded initiation rites while in active heroin dependency.
02He attempted a formal cure at a German sanatorium in 1930 and relapsed within weeks of discharge.
03Several of Crowley's closest disciples developed severe opiate addictions after following his 'magical' drug regimens.

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01Donaghy placed or received bets on 57 games between 2005 and 2007, including playoffs he was assigned to work.
02He was identified not by the NBA but by an FBI investigation into organized crime connections.
03After release, Donaghy alleged in a lawsuit that NBA officials instructed referees to extend a 2002 Western Conference Finals series.

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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'

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A column of Bulgarian Comitadjis captured during WWI in Thessaloniki .

01Komitadji cells operated under a strict internal code: betrayal to the Ottomans meant death by the band's own hand.
02Rival Greek, Bulgarian, and Serbian komitadji murdered each other over village loyalty oaths throughout the 1890s–1900s.
03The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization used komitadji terror to provoke Ottoman reprisals and radicalize peasants deliberately.

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01AWB members stormed the Kempton Park CODESA negotiations in 1993, driving an armored vehicle through the glass entrance.
02Three AWB members were shot dead by a lone Black police officer during the Bophuthatswana invasion in 1994.
03Terre'Blanche was photographed passed out drunk in a Johannesburg gutter in 2001, ending the movement's mystique.

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01Bessus stabbed Darius III in 330 BC, left him dying in a cart, and claimed the Achaemenid throne.
02Alexander had Bessus mutilated — nose and ears removed — before sending him to Ecbatana for formal execution.
03Bessus ruled as 'Artaxerxes V' for roughly two years; no coin, no monument survives bearing that name.

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Poster symbolizing the Ele Não Movement.

01In 2016, Bolsonaro told Senator Maria do Rosário she was 'not worth raping' during a floor dispute.
02As president in 2019, he praised Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra — the man who tortured do Rosário — by name.
03Ustra's torture methods included electric shocks; Bolsonaro called him 'a terror for the left' on national television.

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01Cerberus paid $7.4 billion for Chrysler in May 2007; Chrysler filed for bankruptcy by April 2009.
02Daimler paid Cerberus $650 million to take Chrysler off its hands — a negative sale price.
03The U.S. government ultimately injected $12.5 billion to rescue the company Cerberus had just bought.

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