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01Pakistan's planners named the operation after Gibraltar, expecting a similar strategic seizure of territory.
02Kashmiris who were supposed to join the uprising instead led Indian forces to the infiltrators' positions.
03The operation's failure directly triggered the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, which ended in a UN-brokered ceasefire.

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01The SAPS Rural Safety Unit was disbanded in 2007, citing budget restructuring, not case clearance rates.
02South Africa's overall murder conviction rate hovers near 12%; farm attack cases track even lower.
03Parliamentary testimony documented dockets physically removed from police stations before court dates.

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The Wilton Diptych, c. 1395 –1399. Each panel is 53 cm × 37 cm (21 in × 15 in) .

01The Wilton Diptych was painted around 1395, possibly for Richard II's personal devotion, and measures just 37 by 53 centimetres open.
02Inside the angel's globe — 13mm across — infrared analysis in 1993 revealed a painted island with a ship and castle.
03Eleven angels in ultramarine blue surround the Virgin, each wearing Richard II's personal badge of a white hart.

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01Menchú dictated her entire autobiography in Spanish over eight continuous days to anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray.
02She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, becoming the youngest recipient at the time, at age 33.
03Her testimony helped document over 200,000 civilian deaths and disappearances in Guatemala's 36-year civil war.

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01Brownmiller's 1975 formulation made all men structural beneficiaries of rape, not only perpetrators.
02She spent five years researching 'Against Our Will,' including reviewing military rape records from World War II and Bangladesh.
03Brownmiller was a founding member of Women Against Pornography, connecting rape theory directly to media production.

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01Paris Hilton named her kinkajou 'Baby Luv'; it bit her arm severely enough to require hospital treatment.
02Kinkajous are nocturnal, arboreal, and possess a prehensile tail — entirely unsuited to paparazzi flashbulbs.
03Their diet is 90% fruit, making them major rainforest seed dispersers across Central and South America.

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A cannibal feast on Tanna , Vanuatu, c. 1885–1889

01The term 'long pig' originates from Polynesian and Melanesian cannibalistic practice, not European invention.
02Missionary accounts from Fiji in the 1840s record the phrase being used matter-of-factly by islanders.
03The smell comparison is attributed to survivors and perpetrators alike, across geographically unconnected cultures.

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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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01Wasendorf intercepted paper bank statements by rerouting his firm's mail to a personal P.O. box he controlled for two decades.
02The fraud totaled $215 million stolen from roughly 13,000 customers — discovered only when an automated ACH check failed.
03His 2012 suicide attempt failed; he was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison at age 64.

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