gnostek1 / 6The Kwakwaka'wakw continue the practice of potlatch. Illustrated here is Wawadit'la in Thunderbird Park , Victoria, B.C. , a big house built by Chief Mungo Martin in 1953. Wealthy, prominent hosts would have a Big House specifically for…
01Chiefs destroyed copper shields worth thousands of blankets to publicly shame competing chiefs.
02Canada criminalized the potlatch in 1885; practitioners faced up to six months in prison.
03Kwakwaka'wakw chief Dan Cranmer hosted an illegal 1921 potlatch; 45 attendees were arrested.
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01Hitler's 1942 Commando Order mandated execution of all captured raiders, regardless of uniform — eight men died under it.
02Corporal Eric Fisher and Marine Norman Colley drowned on the first night; their bodies never recovered.
03Hasler and Sparks, the two survivors, walked over 100 miles through occupied France to reach Spain.
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01Bloomberg L.P. earns roughly $6 billion annually, almost entirely from terminal subscription fees.
02Michael Bloomberg spent over $1 billion of his own fortune across three New York City mayoral races.
03The terminal's signature beige keyboard design has remained essentially unchanged since its 1982 debut.
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01Burden gave a single instruction: 'Shoot me.' The assistant complied from 15 feet away.
02No hospital record was filed immediately; Burden treated the wound himself that night.
03The piece, 'Shoot,' appeared in no gallery at the time — it was performed in a rented garage.
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01The Indian Navy's INS Nipat, Nirghat, and Veer launched the first-ever missile attack in Asian naval history.
02Pakistan's oil storage tanks burned for seven continuous days, destroying fuel reserves critical to its war effort.
03A second Indian strike two nights later sank the PNS Dacca and cut Karachi's port communications completely.
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01Decebalus's head was cut off and displayed in Rome's Forum after his suicide in 106 AD.
02His death scene was carved into Trajan's Column, making it one of antiquity's most documented suicides.
03He hid Dacia's treasury — estimated at 165 tonnes of gold — under a diverted river before his fall.
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01116 people died in the blast and subsequent fire; Abu Sayyaf was paid roughly $400 to execute the attack.
02The bomb was concealed inside a television set stored in the vessel's cargo hold.
03It remains the single deadliest terrorist attack on a civilian vessel in peacetime, worldwide.
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01The $25 billion 1989 buyout held the record as the largest LBO for 17 years.
02CEO Ross Johnson proposed the buyout himself, expecting to walk away with a $100 million golden parachute.
03The deal inspired 'Barbarians at the Gate,' which sold over a million copies and became an HBO film.
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01Acker's 'Great Expectations' (1982) plagiarized Dickens, Proust, and Harold Robbins in a single text without quotation marks.
02She had breast implants removed on camera in the 1990s and wrote about it as a theory of bodily authorship.
03Her novel 'Blood and Guts in High School' was banned in West Germany for explicit illustrations she drew herself.