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01English archers fired up to 12 arrows per minute; 5,000 archers loosed roughly 60,000 arrows in the first minute.
02Henry V ordered the execution of hundreds of French prisoners mid-battle, fearing a second flank attack.
03The Duke of York, Henry's cousin, suffocated inside his own armor after being knocked down.

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01Samus cannot use her Varia Suit — which protects against heat — until a commanding officer says she may.
02Director Yoshio Sakamoto took full creative control and deliberately sidelined co-developer Team Ninja's combat instincts.
03Fan and critical backlash was so sustained that Other M reshaped how Nintendo discussed the Metroid series for a decade.

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Ferrofluid on glass, with a neodymium magnet underneath

01Ferrofluid was invented by NASA engineer Steve Papell in 1963 as a rocket fuel concept.
02Each spike is a self-organising structure where magnetic force and surface tension reach exact equilibrium.
03Ferrofluids now seal the rotating shafts of hard drives in virtually every computer ever made.

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01Getty's grandson John Paul Getty III was 16 when kidnapped in Rome in July 1973.
02The severed ear and a lock of hair arrived at a Rome newspaper six weeks into the standoff.
03Getty Sr. lent his son the final ransom sum at 4% interest — repayment was contractually required.

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01Philby personally warned Soviet spy Donald Maclean in 1951, triggering a defection that consumed British intelligence for a decade.
02He was cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in Parliament in 1955 — an official denial that bought him eight more years.
03When he finally defected to Moscow in 1963, he had been operating for 30 years — recruited at Cambridge in the early 1930s.

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The Wilton Diptych, c. 1395 –1399. Each panel is 53 cm × 37 cm (21 in × 15 in) .

01The Wilton Diptych was painted around 1395, possibly for Richard II's personal devotion, and measures just 37 by 53 centimetres open.
02Inside the angel's globe — 13mm across — infrared analysis in 1993 revealed a painted island with a ship and castle.
03Eleven angels in ultramarine blue surround the Virgin, each wearing Richard II's personal badge of a white hart.

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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'

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01Chiura Obata, a UC Berkeley art professor, founded the Topaz Art School inside the internment camp in 1942.
02James Wakasa, 63, was shot and killed by a guard at Topaz in April 1943 for walking near the perimeter fence.
03Over 600 students enrolled in the art school, producing work that is now held in major American museum collections.

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01Barre ordered his artillery to shell the Hawiye neighborhoods of Mogadishu, killing an estimated 25,000 civilians in 1990–91.
02He had ruled Somalia for 21 years under a doctrine he called 'Scientific Socialism.'
03Somalia has had no functioning central government in the three decades since his flight — the longest such collapse of any modern state.

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