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01The Sutton Hoo ship burial contained 263 gold and garnet objects, along with silver from Byzantium and a Swedish-style helmet.
02The helmet was recovered in 1939 in more than 500 corroded fragments, each catalogued before reconstruction at the British Museum.
03No body was found in the burial chamber — the acidic Suffolk soil dissolved all bone, leaving only the ghost of a king.

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01Ambassador Muccio's July 1950 letter explicitly approved shooting refugees who advanced toward U.S. positions.
02The letter surfaced during the 1999–2001 AP investigation that broke the No Gun Ri story wide open.
03It remains the only known written U.S. diplomatic authorization for lethal force against civilian noncombatants in the war.

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01He executed the entire officer corps of the Ten Thousand at a single banquet in 401 BC.
02The leaderless Greek soldiers then elected new officers on the spot — one was the historian Xenophon.
03Tissaphernes himself was later beheaded on Artaxerxes II's orders, his head sent to the king as proof.

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Chapel interior

01The bone decorations were formally commissioned in 1870; František Rint bleached and arranged roughly 40,000 skeletons.
02The Schwarzenberg coat of arms rendered in bone includes a raven pecking the eye socket of a severed skull.
03The original mass burial began after soil from Jerusalem was sprinkled on the site in 1278, making it the most desired grave in Bohemia.

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Chapel interior

01The bone chandelier contains at least one of every bone in the human body.
02František Rint bleached and wired 40,000 skeletons after Black Death mass graves were exhumed in 1278.
03The Schwarzenberg coat of arms, rendered in bone, includes a sculpted raven pecking a severed eye socket.

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01Melanosomes in the preserved skin allowed researchers to reconstruct a dark-backed, pale-bellied striped pattern in 2016.
02Countershading suggests Psittacosaurus lived in a forest environment with overhead light — a habitat conclusion from skin pigment alone.
03The same specimen reveals a cloaca, confirming for the first time what a non-avian dinosaur's vent actually looked like.

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01The Zulu impi encircled the British camp in under two hours on January 22, 1879.
02Ammunition screws were rusted shut and quartermasters demanded signed requisitions mid-battle, leaving companies dry.
031,329 British and allied soldiers were killed — the largest single defeat of the Victorian army.

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01Fish mailed the Budd family a letter in 1934 describing Grace's flesh as 'sweet and tender.'
02X-rays before his execution revealed 29 needles he had inserted into his own groin over the years.
03He claimed to have 'had children in every state,' suggesting up to 100 victims across decades.

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01Hostages included foreign nationals seized in earlier raids, used as shields inside an active hospital.
02Local officials were later investigated for allegedly allowing Abu Sayyaf fighters to escape the cordon.
03A Congressional inquiry found evidence that military officers may have negotiated a passage out for the gunmen.

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