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01The three brothers killed 11 people together; Linwood was the first to be executed, in 1984.
02All three escaped Mecklenburg Correctional Center simultaneously in May 1984, using stolen guard uniforms.
03James Briley was recaptured in Philadelphia within six days and executed the following year.

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A Jake and Dinos Chapman fused mannequin piece from the exhibition Come and See at the Serpentine Gallery

01The original Goya plates date from 1810–1820; the Chapmans overpainted them in 2003.
02They titled the defaced series 'Insult to Injury,' inverting Goya's humanitarian intent entirely.
03Jake Chapman said ruining the Goyas was more creative than making new work from scratch.

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01Super Mario Galaxy's soundtrack was performed live by a full orchestra — a first for the Mario series.
02The game's smallest planets are roughly 10 feet across in scale, making Mario a giant on his own worlds.
03A second player could join solely to catch and hold stardust, a gentle cooperative role for a younger sibling.

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01The hoard weighed over 5 kg of gold and 1.4 kg of silver — the largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found.
02A Latin biblical inscription on one gold strip reads: 'Rise up, O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed' — a war prayer.
03Every piece is military: sword pommels, helmet cheek-pieces, no domestic objects. Someone stripped the war-gear from the dead.

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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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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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01Voltaire predicted Christianity would collapse within 100 years; the Geneva Bible Society occupied his house by 1828.
02He annotated his own copy of the Bible with the word 'absurd' in the margins, repeatedly, throughout.
03Voltaire wrote over 20,000 letters in his lifetime, many mocking Scripture by quoting it back verbatim.

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01Law was convicted of murder in London in 1694 but escaped prison and reinvented himself as a monetary theorist.
02His Banque Générale issued paper money backed by nothing; the resulting Mississippi Bubble wiped out France's middle class.
03Louis XV personally granted Law French citizenship and the title Controller-General — the kingdom's highest financial office.

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0193,000 Pakistani POWs were held in 52 camps across India from December 1971 to 1973.
02Pakistan refused to acknowledge its soldiers as prisoners of war for months, complicating repatriation talks.
03India threatened war crimes trials for 195 officers before Bangladesh ultimately dropped the demand.

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