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Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid

01The Minoan bull-leaping fresco at Knossos, c. 1450 BC, shows both male and female athletes mid-vault.
02The Spanish bullfight's three-act structure — tercio de varas, banderillas, faena — mirrors ancient sacrificial killing sequences.
03Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' documented 1,200 bulls killed in a single Madrid season in the 1920s.

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01Oxygen inside Biosphere 2 fell from 21% to 14.5% — equivalent to altitude sickness at 13,400 feet.
02Morning glories choked the crops; the crew ate their emergency seed stock to survive.
03A secret oxygen injection was pumped in, which the management initially denied to the press.

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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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01Empress Fu was dragged past Emperor Xian in the corridor to her execution; he could not intervene.
02Cao Cao forced Xian to marry his own daughter after murdering Empress Fu, consolidating control through the bedchamber.
03Emperor Xian outlived the Han dynasty by fourteen years, dying peacefully in 234 CE as a feudal prince.

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01Ishigo voluntarily entered Poston Relocation Center in 1942 despite being white and legally exempt from internment.
02She produced hundreds of sketches and watercolors documenting daily camp life — most drawn on scavenged paper.
03After the war, she and Arthur lived in poverty in Los Angeles; her artwork was nearly lost before rediscovery in the 1970s.

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01The last log entry, dated November 25, 1872, placed the ship near the Azores; she was found 400 miles off course.
02Captain Benjamin Briggs had brought his wife and two-year-old daughter aboard; all three vanished with the crew.
03Nine of the 1,701 alcohol barrels were found empty on inspection — the only anomaly in an otherwise untouched cargo.

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01The Gauls held Rome for seven months; the ransom was 1,000 pounds of gold before Brennus added his sword.
02'Vae victis' — woe to the conquered — became the phrase Rome never forgot and never forgave.
03Rome's humiliation was so total that they later invented a legend where Camillus rode in to stop the payment.

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01Foucault was reportedly aware he had AIDS by 1983 and continued frequenting San Francisco bathhouses through that year.
02He coined 'biopower' — the state's management of bodies and populations — in a 1976 lecture at the Collège de France.
03His 'Discipline and Punish' (1975) opens with a four-page description of a man being drawn and quartered in 1757 Paris.

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01GW170817 produced an estimated 3–13 Earth masses of pure gold in under two seconds.
02The kilonova was spotted 130 million light-years away in galaxy NGC 4993 on August 17, 2017.
03R-process nucleosynthesis — the only mechanism for forging heavy metals — requires neutron star merger density.

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