gnostek1 / 26th-century mosaic of Justinian I in the Basilique San Vitale in Ravenna , Italy . Damascius was head of the last Neoplatonic school in Athens when the laws of Justinian I forced its closure.
01Damascius led the final seven Neoplatonists out of Athens to the Persian court of Khosrow I in 529 AD.
02He wrote a treatise on first principles so dense it was considered unreadable even by fellow Neoplatonists.
03The Persian king negotiated their safe return into the treaty of 532 AD with the Byzantine Empire.
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01116 people died in the blast and subsequent fire; Abu Sayyaf was paid roughly $400 to execute the attack.
02The bomb was concealed inside a television set stored in the vessel's cargo hold.
03It remains the single deadliest terrorist attack on a civilian vessel in peacetime, worldwide.
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01X-rays taken in 1947 confirmed the rapier passed through his liver and stomach undamaged.
02He performed the skewering publicly in Zurich, witnessed by physicians who could find no trickery.
03He died in 1948 — not from blades, but from a swallowed steel needle causing an aortic aneurysm.
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01Castra Regina was built in 179 CE to garrison Legio III Italica on the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
02The fort's massive sandstone corner tower, the Porta Praetoria, still rises above street level in central Regensburg today.
03Regensburg's medieval street grid follows the Roman fort's internal axes — the legionary plan still organizes a living city.
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01Unit 731's flea-breeding operation produced approximately 3 kilograms — around 45 million individual fleas — per week.
02Plague-infected rats were bred alongside fleas in dedicated Pingfang facilities staffed by civilian workers.
03The 1940 Ningbo plague outbreak, traced to a Unit 731 drop, killed hundreds within two months.
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01The Best Party's platform included free towels at public pools, a polar bear, and a 'Disneyland in the Ravine.'
02They won 34.7% of Reykjavík's 2010 vote — more than any other single party — on an openly absurdist ticket.
03Co-founded by comedian Jón Gnarr, the party governed a capital city of 120,000 for a full four-year term.
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01Casartelli died on July 18, 1995, during stage 15 of the Tour — a descent in the Pyrenees.
02The race organisation did not neutralise the stage; riders finished while Casartelli was airlifted, dying, to hospital.
03It was the first Tour fatality since British rider Tom Simpson died on Mont Ventoux in 1967.
gnostek1 / 5Front page cover of the newspaper L'Aurore for Thursday 13 January 1898, with the letter J'Accuse...! , written by Émile Zola about the Dreyfus affair . The headline reads I Accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic .
01Zola addressed the letter directly to President Félix Faure, naming eleven officials as co-conspirators.
02L'Aurore printed 300,000 copies on January 13, 1898 — multiples of its usual daily circulation.
03Zola was convicted of libel and fled to England, returning only after Dreyfus was exonerated.
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01Drake had concealed Adonis's existence; Pusha T's 2018 track was the public revelation.
02The cover art repurposed a leaked Drake Adidas promotional photo, weaponizing Drake's own brand deal.
03Drake confirmed the son's existence days later via an Instagram post, validating every claim.