gnostek1 / 3Medieval English split tally stick ( front and reverse view). The stick is notched and inscribed to record a debt owed to the rural dean of Preston Candover , Hampshire, of a tithe of 20 d each on 32 sheep, amounting to a total sum of £2…
01Tally sticks recorded English government debt from the 12th century until 1826, outlasting empires.
02The notch width indicated denomination: a thumb-width notch meant £1,000; a barleycorn-width meant one penny.
03In 1834, burning obsolete tally sticks in a furnace set fire to the Houses of Parliament, destroying them.
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01The 442nd suffered roughly 800 casualties rescuing 211 men of the 36th Infantry's 'Lost Battalion' in October 1944.
02The Texans had been surrounded in the Vosges for a week before Japanese American soldiers broke through.
03The 442nd became the most decorated unit of its size in U.S. military history — largely from this campaign.
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01The 1995 Tour continued racing the day after Casartelli's death, with Stage 16 treated as a tribute ride.
02Motorola teammates finished Stage 16 holding Casartelli's bike upright across the finish line together.
03Race director Jean-Marie Leblanc faced immediate criticism for not cancelling the stage entirely.
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01Velites were Rome's light infantry drawn exclusively from its poorest citizen class.
02Each Velite carried seven 90cm javelins into battle, hurling them before retreating through the ranks.
03The wolf skull headdress served a tactical purpose: commanders used it to track skirmisher positions mid-battle.
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01Thomson published the paradox in 1954; the total switching time sums to exactly 2 minutes via geometric series.
02Standard mathematics is simply silent — both 'on' and 'off' are consistent with the premises.
03The paradox exposes that infinite processes with defined totals need not have defined final states.
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01Tiryns's walls reach 17 metres thick — enough to tunnel entire corbelled galleries through the interior.
02The limestone blocks weigh up to 15 tonnes each; no Bronze Age tool marks explain how they were moved.
03Homer described Tiryns as 'wall-girt'; later Greeks believed only giants could have raised the circuit.
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01Egil killed a boy at a childhood game, age seven; his mother praised him as future-Viking material.
02Captured by King Eiríkr Bloodaxe, Egil composed 'Höfuðlausn' overnight — the poem bought his head.
03He reportedly suffered a disfiguring bone disease now theorized as Paget's disease of the skull.
gnostek1 / 5Two sancai -glazed Tang dynasty tomb figures , early 8th century, Prague National Gallery
01Emperor Wu sent two separate armies; the first 40,000 men were turned back by desert and siege before a second force of 60,000 succeeded.
02The 'blood-sweating' was likely caused by a parasitic worm, Parafilaria multipapillosa, which causes subcutaneous hemorrhaging.
03The Ferghana horses were called Tianma — Heavenly Horses — and Wu composed a poem in their honor.
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01The U.S. State Department placed a $1 million bounty on Sahiron under the Rewards for Justice program.
02Sahiron lost one arm in combat; he continues to command active operations in Sulu province.
03He has survived multiple AFP offensives, drone surveillance campaigns, and internal Abu Sayyaf leadership purges.