Margaret Atwood — gnostek

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01Atwood co-founded Unotchit Inc. in 2004 to commercialize the LongPen, which transmits handwriting via tablet in real time.
02She has published over sixty books across poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism across six decades.
03Her novel 'The Handmaid's Tale,' published in 1985, spent 52 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list after the 2016 U.S. election.

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01Lorz rode in a car for miles 11 through 21, then jogged the final five to the finish line.
02Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, had already placed the winner's laurels on Lorz's head.
03The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his handlers during the race as a stimulant.

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Langton's ant after 11,000 steps. A red pixel shows the ant's location.

01The 'highway' pattern — a repeating 104-step diagonal corridor — emerges reliably around step 10,000.
02Christopher Langton described the ant in 1986; the highway emergence remains unproven from first principles.
03The ant is Turing-complete: given an infinite grid, it can simulate any computation.

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Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

01Jonah is the only biblical prophet sent to a foreign enemy city — Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire.
02He successfully converts 120,000 Ninevites, then sits down and wishes he were dead out of spite.
03The fish is mentioned in three verses; Jonah's tantrum over a dead gourd plant gets an entire chapter.

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01Tiryns's walls reach 17 metres thick — enough to tunnel entire corbelled galleries through the interior.
02The limestone blocks weigh up to 15 tonnes each; no Bronze Age tool marks explain how they were moved.
03Homer described Tiryns as 'wall-girt'; later Greeks believed only giants could have raised the circuit.

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01The Chapel of St. Kinga sits 101 meters underground and fits 400 worshippers; every surface is carved salt.
02Miners began carving in the 13th century; the cathedral took nearly 700 years of cumulative chisel work to complete.
03Salt chandeliers were constructed by dissolving and recrystallizing brine into sculptural forms rather than cutting raw blocks.

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01Nitsch's flagship performance ran six continuous days at Prinzendorf Castle, using actual slaughtered livestock.
02Participants were strapped to wooden crosses and drenched in ox blood as a liturgical act.
03Austrian authorities prosecuted Nitsch for obscenity in 1965; he continued performing for another five decades.

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01Ueda used a design method he called 'subtractive design,' removing features until only the core remained.
02ICO was nearly cancelled by Sony twice before shipping on PS1 — it launched on PS2 in 2001 instead.
03The European and Japanese releases included a two-player co-op mode cut entirely from the North American version.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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