gnostek1 / 21The "Xiaohe Mummy", exhibited in Xinjiang Museum, is one of the oldest Tarim mummies, dating more than 3800 years ago. Another mummy from the same place is the " Princess of Xiaohe ".
01Some Tarim mummies date to 2000 BCE, predating Chinese Han settlement of the region by over a thousand years.
02They wore tartan-weave wool clothing chemically similar to textiles found in Bronze Age Austria and Celtic Europe.
032021 DNA analysis showed they were an isolated population with no close living relatives — not migrants from the west.
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01In 310 BC, Agathocles invaded Africa while Carthage besieged his city — the first European to attack Carthage on home soil.
02He started as a literal potter, was exiled twice for sedition, then seized Syracuse with a sword.
03He declared himself King of Sicily in 304 BC, the first Western ruler to adopt that specific Hellenistic title.
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01He executed the entire officer corps of the Ten Thousand at a single banquet in 401 BC.
02The leaderless Greek soldiers then elected new officers on the spot — one was the historian Xenophon.
03Tissaphernes himself was later beheaded on Artaxerxes II's orders, his head sent to the king as proof.
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01The quest 'The Power of the Atom' rewards 500 caps and a luxury suite for detonating the town.
02Moira Brown, an NPC in Megaton, survives as a ghoul if the player detonates the bomb — she still thanks you.
03The bomb at Megaton's center is a live, undetonated Fat Man-class nuclear device treated as civic furniture.
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01The expedition's chief architect, Alcibiades, defected to Sparta before the fleet even arrived in Sicily.
02The entire Athenian force — roughly 38,000 men — was killed or enslaved by 413 BC.
03Thucydides called it the greatest single military disaster ever suffered by a Greek city-state.
gnostek1 / 4Red Bird – watercolour on paper
01Giuliani threatened to cut $7 million in city funding to the Brooklyn Museum over the painting.
02Ofili, a Catholic, said the dung was a reverent material — he used it in nearly every painting.
03A man entered the museum and smeared white paint over the canvas; he was arrested on-site.
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01Gödel was 25 when he published the incompleteness theorems in 1931, ending Hilbert's formalist program.
02He encoded mathematical statements as numbers — 'Gödel numbering' — so a system could talk about itself.
03The Second Theorem: no consistent system can prove its own consistency — foundations float free.
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01The Kanun was transmitted orally for centuries; it wasn't written down until Franciscan friar Shtjefën Gjeçovi compiled it in 1933.
02One article of the Kanun fixes the price of a man's blood at 'twelve oxen' — the base unit of honor debt.
03Dukagjini lived contemporaneously with Skanderbeg and reportedly feuded with him personally.
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01Buckner played on severely damaged ankles, wearing high-top cleats for support that may have slowed his glove.
02Manager John McNamara later admitted he meant to pull Buckner for defense but forgot in the excitement.
03The Red Sox led 5–3 in the 10th inning with two outs and two strikes on the batter before the error.