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01Einstein later called signing the letter 'the one great mistake of my life.'
02Szilárd drafted the letter; Einstein signed it — lending the weight of his name alone.
03Roosevelt's response was to appoint a Uranium Committee within weeks of receiving it.
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01Hughes's personal aides maintained a written codeine injection schedule; the intervals were never allowed to exceed four hours.
02He acquired Air West, Summa Corporation, and multiple Las Vegas casinos during the peak years of his dependency.
03By 1970 Hughes weighed under 100 pounds; his business lawyers conducted negotiations they could not confirm he authorized.
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01At Awazu in 1184, Tomoe Gozen decapitated enemy commander Onda no Moroshige in open battle.
02Her lover Minamoto no Yoshinaka commanded her to flee before dying, unwilling to die beside a woman.
03She appears in the Heike Monogatari described as 'a warrior worth a thousand' — then disappears entirely.
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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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01The blood on the boys' faces had to be wiped with wool soaked in milk — the boys were required to laugh.
02Women deliberately lined the streets to be struck by the goat-hide thongs, believing it guaranteed fertility.
03Pope Gelasius I tried to suppress Lupercalia in 494 AD, writing a furious letter that confirms it was still happening.
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01Sugar gliders sold in mall kiosks are often kept solitary, triggering self-mutilation of limbs and tails.
02Their gliding membrane stretches from wrist to ankle; they can cover 50 metres in a single glide.
03In the wild, colonies share sleeping nests of up to 10 animals — solitary captivity is pathological for them.
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01Roman officer Volusenus struck Commius in the head with a sword during a supposed parley; Commius escaped and swore never to set eyes on a Roman again.
02Commius later negotiated a formal peace with Mark Antony on the sole condition that he never be required to enter Roman presence.
03He eventually crossed to Britain, founded a dynasty among the Atrebates tribe, and minted coins bearing his own name — the only Gallic rebel to build a kingdom afterward.
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01A three-month-old infant was stabbed through the heart with a wooden stake at a 1994 Quebec site.
02Fires ignited simultaneously in chalets in Cheiry and Salvan, Switzerland, and Morin-Heights, Quebec, on October 4–5, 1994.
03A final wave in 1997 killed 5 more in Quebec; the youngest was 16, the oldest 69.
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01The $100 trillion Zimbabwean note, issued in January 2009, is now a collector's item sold for novelty.
02Life expectancy in Zimbabwe collapsed from 60 years in 1990 to 37 years by 2006 under Mugabe's rule.
03Mugabe ruled for 37 years before a military coup in November 2017 finally ended his presidency.