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01Kitchener's forces fired roughly 500,000 rounds in under five hours on September 2, 1898.
02The Mahdi's tomb was dynamited after the battle; his skull was briefly used as an inkwell.
03Winston Churchill, 23, charged with the 21st Lancers and wrote about the slaughter in 'The River War.'

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01Parton's $1 million donation to Vanderbilt in April 2020 was credited in Moderna's early vaccine research acknowledgments.
02When Tennessee proposed a capitol statue of her, she personally requested the legislature withdraw the bill.
03She established the Imagination Library in 1995, which has since mailed over 200 million free books to children.

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The seal of Mani , the oldest known Manichaean art

01Mani was reportedly flayed and his stuffed skin hung at the city gate of Gundeshapur around 274–277 CE.
02Manichaean manuscripts written in at least seven scripts — including Sogdian, Coptic, and Chinese — survived the purges.
03A Manichaean community in the Chinese city of Quanzhou was still practicing openly as late as the 14th century.

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01Greer told women to taste their own menstrual blood as a direct act against the disgust men had trained them to feel toward their own bodies.
02'The Female Eunuch' was published in 1970 and translated into eight languages within two years of release.
03Greer's 2018 statements that rape 'needn't be a life sentence' and was often 'bad sex' led to petitions banning her from Australian universities.

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Hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) [ clarification needed ]

01Hydrogen atoms are small enough to diffuse through solid steel at room temperature without any visible entry point.
02High-strength steels above 1,000 MPa yield strength are most vulnerable — the stronger the steel, the worse the risk.
03The 2013 San Francisco Bay Bridge bolt failures were caused by hydrogen embrittlement in A354 grade rods.

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01Lorz was photographed accepting a laurel wreath from Alice Roosevelt before the fraud was discovered.
02He was initially disqualified for life, then reinstated within months and won the 1905 Boston Marathon legitimately.
03The actual 1904 Olympic marathon winner, Thomas Hicks, was fed strychnine and brandy mid-race by his handlers.

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01Milken paid a $600 million fine in 1990 — the largest securities-industry penalty recorded to that point.
02He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993 and subsequently donated hundreds of millions to cancer research.
03Donald Trump pardoned Milken in February 2020, 30 years after his guilty plea to securities fraud.

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01Only the first kilometre of the cave is iced; the remaining 41 kilometres are limestone tunnels beyond the freeze zone.
02The cave was mapped by explorer Alexander von Mörk beginning in 1913; he was killed at Gallipoli in 1914, and his ashes were interred inside the cave.
03Air circulation within Eisriesenwelt keeps the ice formations frozen even when summer temperatures outside exceed 20°C.

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01The siege ran from May 23 to October 23, 2017 — 154 days of urban combat in a city of 200,000.
02Philippine government forces sustained 165 killed; civilian death toll exceeded 800.
03The battle displaced approximately 360,000 residents; large sections of Marawi remain uninhabitable years later.

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