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Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript

01Cave 17 held roughly 40,000 documents in Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Sogdian, and at least five other languages.
02Aurel Stein bought thousands of scrolls from the cave's guardian monk for just four silver horseshoes in 1907.
03The cache included the world's oldest printed book, a star atlas 200 years ahead of any European equivalent.

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0193,000 Pakistani POWs were held in 52 camps across India from December 1971 to 1973.
02Pakistan refused to acknowledge its soldiers as prisoners of war for months, complicating repatriation talks.
03India threatened war crimes trials for 195 officers before Bangladesh ultimately dropped the demand.

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01Cyrus recruited roughly 10,400 Greek hoplites — the 'Ten Thousand' — to topple his own brother's throne.
02He was killed at Cunaxa in 401 BC, struck by a javelin, reportedly while lunging at Artaxerxes himself.
03His Greek mercenaries won their sector of the battle, then had to march home alone through hostile territory.

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01Julius Civilis had served Rome for 25 years before leading the revolt; he had one eye and wore his hair long in a tribal vow.
02The Batavians destroyed Legions I, IV, XV, XVI, and V Alaudae — five eagles lost in one uprising.
03Batavian soldiers were so valued they formed the personal bodyguard of the emperor in Rome.

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01Chopin died October 17, 1849; the game's story ends on that exact date inside the dream world.
02Each in-game musical piece is performed by an orchestra and corresponds to a real Chopin opus number.
03The final boss fight plays Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu — a piece he explicitly asked to be destroyed unpublished.

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01Nineteen Chinese men were lynched in a single night — roughly 10% of Los Angeles's entire Chinese population.
02The mob looted an estimated $40,000 in cash and jewelry from victims before hanging them.
03Eight men were convicted of manslaughter, but all convictions were vacated within a year on procedural grounds.

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01Senator Joseph Lieberman named Night Trap by title in a 1993 Senate subcommittee hearing on video game violence.
02The game was originally developed for the unreleased NEMO console in 1987 — six years before its Senate debut.
03Sega pulled Night Trap from shelves voluntarily during the hearings; it was later re-released on Steam in 2017.

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The immortal Zhang shooting at the Tiangou

01Tiangou's tail turned black during the theft of heavenly fire — a detail preserved across regional variants.
02Chinese eclipse tradition held that Tiangou was swallowing the sun; loud drumming forced him to release it.
03The Panhu myth describes a divine dog who won a princess by delivering an enemy king's head.

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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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