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01Ban Chao launched his career by burning a Xiongnu envoy's camp with only 36 men in 73 CE.
02He held the Western Regions — Rome's trade frontier — for three decades with minimal imperial reinforcement.
03He died in 102 CE, aged 70, having just been granted his wish to return to Luoyang.

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01The column's 190-metre relief spiral shows explicit scenes of decapitation and mass drowning of Germanic prisoners.
02A hermit was permitted to inhabit the column's interior chamber for an extended period in the medieval era.
03Pope Sixtus V replaced Aurelius's statue at the top with one of Saint Paul in 1589.

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Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

01At Carrhae, Surena killed roughly 20,000 Romans and captured 10,000, destroying Crassus's entire eastern army.
02He killed the triumvir Crassus — one-third of Rome's ruling power — ending Rome's richest man.
03King Orodes II had Surena executed shortly after the victory, reportedly fearing his general's growing prestige.

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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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01Benedetto Madonia's body was stuffed into a sugar barrel and abandoned on East 11th Street, Manhattan, April 14, 1903.
02Detective Joseph Petrosino traced the killers by matching barrel wood shavings to a specific Brooklyn cooperage.
03The case exposed a transatlantic Sicilian extortion network operating in New York — five years before the NYPD had a word for it.

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01Cai Lun was a eunuch serving Emperor He of Han when he refined a pulp-and-mat process to create paper in 105 CE.
02He used bark, hemp, rags, and fishing nets as raw materials — waste products turned into history's most durable medium.
03After his patron's death, a rival faction indicted him; rather than face trial, he bathed, dressed formally, and drank poison.

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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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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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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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