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0112th-century geographers ranked Merv the world's largest city, with a population possibly exceeding 500,000.
02Mongol soldiers were each reportedly assigned quotas of civilians to execute personally at Merv in 1221.
03The irrigation canals (qanats) destroyed during the sack were never fully rebuilt; the surrounding farmland became permanent desert.

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01Kirby cannot lose a life in Epic Yarn; being hit just scatters beads across the felt landscape.
02The game's art style was inspired by a developer's accidental texture swap during early prototyping.
03Entire levels stretch and fold like fabric — a zipper opens a hidden room; a button holds a bridge.

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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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01Van de Velde's ball struck the grandstand rail, his own leg, and landed in deep rough — all on one shot.
02He stood in the water considering playing the submerged ball before finally taking a penalty drop.
03Paul Lawrie won the playoff at 6-over; Van de Velde had started the 18th at 6-under.

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01Aum Shinrikyo's 1995 Tokyo subway attack killed 13, injured 50 severely, and affected nearly 1,000 commuters.
02Asahara charged disciples $2,000 to drink his bathwater, marketed as 'Miracle Pond,' for spiritual initiation.
03His group also released sarin in Matsumoto in 1994, killing 8 — a less-known earlier attack.

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01Robles Ávila commanded troops in Zapatista campaigns across Guerrero state, earning his colonelcy through documented battlefield service.
02When soldiers or civilians used feminine address, Robles Ávila was known to respond with his pistol drawn.
03The Mexican government formally recognized him as a veteran of the Revolution when he was in his nineties, in the 1970s.

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01Sue's foot bones show gout — a metabolic disease never before diagnosed in a non-avian dinosaur.
02The jaw lesions match trichomonosis, a parasite that today kills pigeons by dissolving bone from inside.
03Sue sold at auction in 1997 for $8.36 million, then a world record for any fossil.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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01Kuwait's slant-drilling into the Rumaila field, shared with Iraq, gave Saddam his stated casus belli.
02100,000 Iraqi troops and 700 tanks crossed the border in the pre-dawn hours of August 2, 1990.
03US Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam days before that America had 'no opinion' on Arab border disputes.

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