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Family tree of Ban Chao.

01Heqin treaties required the Han court to send a princess, silk bolts, grain, and wine to the Xiongnu khan annually.
02When no true princess was available, court ladies or even servants were given the title 'princess' and dispatched north.
03The policy lasted roughly 130 years before Emperor Wu finally chose war — and spent decades and tens of thousands of lives reversing it.

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01Frye was limited to 4 kilobytes of ROM; the arcade Pac-Man ran on hardware with far greater capacity.
02Atari produced 12 million cartridges expecting Pac-Man to sell the 2600 console to new households.
03The port's failure — returning millions of unsold units — is cited as a primary trigger of the 1983 crash.

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Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (1884)

01Llywelyn drove his sword through Gelert before seeing the wolf's carcass hidden beneath the cradle.
02The village of Beddgelert, Wales, is named for the hound; a grave monument still stands there.
03The legend is likely an 18th-century tourist invention planted by an innkeeper named David Pritchard.

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Langton's ant after 11,000 steps. A red pixel shows the ant's location.

01The 'highway' pattern — a repeating 104-step diagonal corridor — emerges reliably around step 10,000.
02Christopher Langton described the ant in 1986; the highway emergence remains unproven from first principles.
03The ant is Turing-complete: given an infinite grid, it can simulate any computation.

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01The ISS has been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 — over 24 unbroken years.
02Astronauts lose up to 1–2% bone density per month; a six-month mission equals a decade of aging.
03The station's solar arrays cover 2,500 square meters — larger than a U.S. football field.

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01The explosion created a crater 170 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 30 feet deep on July 30, 1864.
02Generals ordered troops into the crater itself rather than around it; Confederate fire from the rim was uncontested.
03Union losses: 3,798 men in under four hours. Grant called it 'the saddest affair I have witnessed in the war.'

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01Wittig argued in 1980 that heterosexuality was not a sexuality but a political and economic institution that must be destroyed.
02She claimed lesbians were outside the category 'woman' entirely because 'woman' only has meaning as a relation to men.
03The essay was first delivered at the Modern Language Association conference in 1978 and was reportedly met with stunned silence.

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01Hughes's personal aides maintained a written codeine injection schedule; the intervals were never allowed to exceed four hours.
02He acquired Air West, Summa Corporation, and multiple Las Vegas casinos during the peak years of his dependency.
03By 1970 Hughes weighed under 100 pounds; his business lawyers conducted negotiations they could not confirm he authorized.

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01The West Side Boys held a Royal Irish Regiment patrol of 11 soldiers; one hostage, Ranger Rowan, was released before the raid began.
02SAS and D Squadron assaulted at dawn on September 10, 2000; 25 West Side Boys were killed, one SAS soldier — Brad Tinnion — died.
03Chickens were deliberately scattered into the camp as distraction cover; the entire assault lasted under 20 minutes.

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