We'wha — gnostek

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01We'wha spent six months in Washington D.C. in 1886, received by society as a dignitary and cultural ambassador.
02The Zuni lhamana role — neither man nor woman — was a recognized, honored identity across generations of Pueblo life.
03We'wha's intricate textiles were collected by the Smithsonian, where they remain as artifacts of a living tradition.

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01Bloomberg L.P. earns roughly $6 billion annually, almost entirely from terminal subscription fees.
02Michael Bloomberg spent over $1 billion of his own fortune across three New York City mayoral races.
03The terminal's signature beige keyboard design has remained essentially unchanged since its 1982 debut.

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01Muhammad's actual target was his ex-wife Mildred; the 10 random killings were designed as camouflage.
02He had trained Malvo, then a teenager, for months before the 2002 attacks began.
03Muhammad was executed at Greensville Correctional Center, Virginia, on November 10, 2009.

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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.

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A typical crossbow

01Pope Innocent II's 1139 ban called the crossbow 'hateful to God and unfit for Christians.'
02Richard I of England, who loved the crossbow, died in 1199 from a crossbow bolt at Châlus-Chabrol.
03A trained crossbowman needed no years of muscle-building — a peasant could kill a knight on day one.

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01Gravano's testimony in 1992 sent Gotti to life in prison after three prior acquittals the press called 'The Teflon Don.'
02After witness protection, he relocated to Arizona and built an ecstasy network moving 25,000–30,000 pills weekly through suburban Phoenix.
03He admitted killing 19 people, including his own brother-in-law Nicholas Scibetta — a detail he omitted in early testimony.

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General Tomoyuki Yamashita

01Roxas sued Ferdinand Marcos in a Hawaii court and won a $22 billion judgment in 1996 — the largest ever against a head of state.
02Japanese engineers allegedly dug over 170 tunnel complexes across the Philippines between 1942 and 1945 to conceal looted Asian wealth.
03Marcos reportedly had the golden Buddha Roxas found melted and recast to erase provenance markings.

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01Vanderbilt ordered New York Central trains to stop at the Harlem River bridge in January 1867, stranding passengers in the cold.
02He accumulated a fortune of $105 million by death in 1877 — the largest in U.S. history to that point.
03When a doctor told him to stop working, Vanderbilt replied he could not afford to stop; he was worth $100 million.

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01Pelliot could read fourteen languages and evaluated each Dunhuang scroll in seconds, discarding fakes without pause.
02The Dunhuang cave had been sealed around 1000 AD and held 40,000 manuscripts untouched for nearly 900 years.
03The monk-guardian Wang Yuanlu was paid £130 by Pelliot — roughly the price of a London dinner jacket.

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