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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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01Radcliffe was given five weeks to partition a subcontinent he had never visited, then paid £3,000.
02The line split the Punjab in half; within months, an estimated 200,000 people were dead.
03Radcliffe burned his working papers before departing India, erasing the record of his deliberations.

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01Josephus records 1,100,000 dead and 97,000 enslaved during the siege — mostly Passover pilgrims trapped inside.
02The golden Menorah looted from the Temple is carved in victory on the Arch of Titus, still standing in Rome.
03Titus reportedly wept at the Temple's destruction, calling it an act of divine wrath beyond his command.

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01Mario Kart Wii sold 37.38 million copies, making it the best-selling Mario Kart entry in the series.
02The included Wii Wheel cost Nintendo almost nothing to manufacture, yet players consistently rated it as satisfying.
03Online play via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection let players race strangers worldwide — a first for console Mario Kart.

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Red 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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01Empress Fu was dragged past Emperor Xian in the corridor to her execution; he could not intervene.
02Cao Cao forced Xian to marry his own daughter after murdering Empress Fu, consolidating control through the bedchamber.
03Emperor Xian outlived the Han dynasty by fourteen years, dying peacefully in 234 CE as a feudal prince.

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01God kills Job's ten children, 7,000 sheep, and 3,000 camels on a bet with Satan.
02The prose frame—where Job is rewarded—was likely added centuries after the original poem was written.
03At the end, God mocks Job from a whirlwind for 71 verses without answering a single question.

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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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01Mahler co-founded the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Group) in 1970 as a Marxist revolutionary organization.
02Decades later, he publicly sent a Hitler-salute greeting card to the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
03By 2009, sentenced to over 12 years for Holocaust denial, he saluted the judge from the defendant's bench.

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