gnostek1 / 5Sir Geoffrey Luttrell , mounted, being assisted by his wife and daughter-in-law. Folio 202v.
01The Luttrell Psalter was created around 1320–1340 for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of Irnham, Lincolnshire, at a cost of £32.
02Marginalia include a man with a wheel for a body, a dog playing bagpipes, and a knight genuinely losing to a giant snail.
03The agricultural scenes are so detailed that historians reconstruct 14th-century plowing technique, crop rotation, and harness design from its pages.
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01Drexel pleaded guilty to six felony counts in December 1988 and agreed to pay $650 million in fines.
02The firm filed for bankruptcy on February 13, 1990 — 14 months after the settlement — laying off 5,000 employees.
03At its peak Drexel controlled 45% of the entire U.S. high-yield bond market.
gnostek1 / 13Cosmic flux versus particle energy at the top of Earth's atmosphere
01The 'Oh-My-God particle' had energy 3×10^20 eV — 40 million times more than CERN's LHC can produce.
02Above ~5×10^19 eV, the GZK limit predicts particles should be shredded by CMB photons en route — yet it arrived.
03Its source remains unknown; no known astrophysical accelerator within 160 million light-years can explain it.
gnostek1 / 8Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript
01Cave 17 held roughly 40,000 documents in Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Sogdian, and at least five other languages.
02Aurel Stein bought thousands of scrolls from the cave's guardian monk for just four silver horseshoes in 1907.
03The cache included the world's oldest printed book, a star atlas 200 years ahead of any European equivalent.
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01Wilson took LSD at least a dozen times between 1956 and 1959, supplied by researchers at the Veterans Administration.
02He wrote to AA's trustees arguing that LSD could 'temporarily wipe out the ego' and accelerate the Twelfth Step.
03The AA board rejected his proposal; Wilson continued his LSD sessions privately while remaining AA's public moral authority.
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01Atwood co-founded Unotchit Inc. in 2004 to commercialize the LongPen, which transmits handwriting via tablet in real time.
02She has published over sixty books across poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism across six decades.
03Her novel 'The Handmaid's Tale,' published in 1985, spent 52 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list after the 2016 U.S. election.
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01Comandos used the hostage-takers' daily indoor football game as the acoustic cover to blast through the floor.
02One of two Peruvian soldiers killed was shot by President Fujimori's bodyguard in a friendly-fire incident.
03The tunnels ran 170 meters and were dug over four months without the MRTA noticing the vibrations.
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01Doom's shareware Episode 1 was downloaded approximately 10 million times in its first two years.
02id Software's nine-person team built the engine and shipped the entire game in under 18 months.
03Doom has been ported to refrigerators, pregnancy tests, and ATMs — an unofficial benchmark for computing itself.
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01He reportedly killed the Turkic Khagan Shaba personally in single combat during the 589 AD campaign.
02Khosrow II stripped him of command after the victory; Bahram responded by seizing the Sasanian throne.
03He ruled as Bahram VI — the only non-royal usurper to hold the Sasanian crown — for about two years.