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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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01Dzhumagaliev had his teeth replaced with white metal, earning him the nickname 'Metal Fang.'
02Party guests unknowingly ate kebabs made from his female victims on at least one confirmed occasion.
03He escaped a psychiatric facility in 1989 and was not recaptured for two years.

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01Lorz claimed it was a joke; the Amateur Athletic Union banned him for life, then reversed it after a year.
02The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy mid-race by his handlers.
03Four of the 32 starters finished; the course was a Georgia-summer 90°F with a single water station.

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The phrase banana republic was coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry .

01United Fruit owned Guatemala's only railroad, its telegraph lines, and its Caribbean port.
02In 1954, the CIA overthrew President Árbenz after he tried to redistribute 234,000 acres of UFC land.
03O. Henry coined 'banana republic' in 1904 while hiding in Honduras to escape embezzlement charges.

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01The letter was addressed not to a government but to a private citizen, Walter Rothschild.
02Britain simultaneously held agreements with Arab leaders implying contradictory promises over the same land.
03The phrase 'national home' was chosen deliberately — lawyers had argued 'state' carried too much legal weight.

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01His forces captured the True Cross from Jerusalem in 614 AD and carried it to the Persian capital.
02He assassinated Khosrow II, the emperor who had commanded him, and seized the Sasanian throne.
03His reign lasted precisely 40 days — ended by assassination — making him Persia's shortest-ruling usurper.

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01Custer refused a Gatling gun battery before the march, fearing it would slow him down.
02His column of 210 men was wiped out in under an hour on June 25, 1876.
03Sitting Bull had predicted the exact outcome in a Sun Dance vision days before the battle.

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01Passenger Rupin Katyal was murdered aboard the aircraft during the eight-day standoff at Kandahar.
02India released Masood Azhar, who went on to found Jaish-e-Mohammed and is linked to subsequent attacks.
03The Taliban, then ruling Afghanistan, served as reluctant mediators — demanding India remove the plane from their territory.

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01The postern tunnel at Hattusa runs 70 metres beneath the wall in a corbelled stone arch, still intact after 3,300 years.
02Two sphinx statues, each several tonnes, flanked the city's southern gate as guardians of the Hittite capital.
03Hattusa's walls enclosed approximately 180 hectares on a ridgeline in Anatolia at the empire's height around 1400 BCE.

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