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01Morris's Everest dispatch reached London on June 2, 1953 — timed to coincide with Queen Elizabeth II's coronation morning.
02She underwent surgery in Casablanca in 1972, at a time when the procedure was unavailable in Britain.
03'Conundrum,' published in 1974, is still in print and regarded as a landmark work of autobiographical literature.

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01A German rifle bullet severed Inouye's arm mid-throw; he finished the throw with his other hand.
02He was denied service at a barbershop while still in uniform on his way home from the war.
03Inouye served 49 years in the U.S. Senate — the second-longest-serving senator in history at his death.

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01Pakistani forces occupied over 130 positions across 160 km of Himalayan ridgeline before India discovered them.
02India lost more than 527 soldiers recapturing peaks; Pakistan has never officially acknowledged its military's role.
03General Musharraf's personal notebooks, later published, revealed his operational planning for the infiltration.

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01The Montagnana cello Ma left behind was crafted in Venice in 1733 and is valued at approximately $2.5 million.
02New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission located the cab within one hour using trip records.
03Ma has since performed in conflict zones and refugee camps as part of his Silk Road Ensemble, founded in 1998.

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Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

01At Carrhae, Surena killed roughly 20,000 Romans and captured 10,000, destroying Crassus's entire eastern army.
02He killed the triumvir Crassus — one-third of Rome's ruling power — ending Rome's richest man.
03King Orodes II had Surena executed shortly after the victory, reportedly fearing his general's growing prestige.

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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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01Skanderbeg won 25 consecutive battles against the Ottomans between 1443 and his death in 1468.
02He was taken from his Christian family at age nine to serve as an elite Ottoman soldier.
03Pope Calixtus III called him 'Champion of Christendom'; his helmet and sword survive in Vienna today.

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01De Kock's unit at Vlakplaas once blew up three activists and scattered the remains across two provinces.
02He gave evidence against his political masters in exchange for two life sentences, implicating cabinet ministers.
03Paroled in 2015; he personally apologised to widows of men he had ordered killed.

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01One audience member cut off her clothes; another pressed a loaded pistol to her skull.
02After six hours, Abramović stood and walked toward the crowd — they fled rather than face her.
03Among the 72 objects: a rose, a scalpel, a bullet, and a feather boa.

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