01Vincent Gigante fired the shot in the elevator lobby of 115 Central Park West.
02Costello survived, refused to name his shooter, and was effectively forced into retirement anyway.
03The note found in his pocket listed casino earnings — evidence used against him in tax court.
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01Physio Steph Brennan made a real cut on Williams's lip with a scalpel to produce genuine blood post-capsule.
02The scheme was designed to exploit the 'blood bin' rule, allowing a specialist kicker back onto the field.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years; Brennan lost her medical registration.
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01Chandrasekhar derived the 1.4 solar-mass limit — now called the Chandrasekhar limit — during the 1930 voyage to Cambridge.
02Arthur Eddington called the result 'stellar buffoonery' at the 1935 Royal Astronomical Society meeting, derailing his career for decades.
03He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 — 53 years after the steamship calculation.
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01He masturbated continuously for eight hours a day across a three-week run at Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
02His spoken fantasies targeted specific visitors by the sound of their footsteps — personalizing each encounter.
03The performance was titled 'Seedbed' — framing his semen as planting something in the gallery's ground.
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01Only the first kilometre of the cave is iced; the remaining 41 kilometres are limestone tunnels beyond the freeze zone.
02The cave was mapped by explorer Alexander von Mörk beginning in 1913; he was killed at Gallipoli in 1914, and his ashes were interred inside the cave.
03Air circulation within Eisriesenwelt keeps the ice formations frozen even when summer temperatures outside exceed 20°C.
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01The Dacian haul of 165 tonnes of gold was the largest single treasure seizure in Roman history.
02Trajan celebrated the victory with 123 days of games involving 11,000 animals and 10,000 gladiators.
03Dacia's king Decebalus cut his own throat rather than be paraded through Rome in Trajan's triumph.
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01The 'menu' listed prices in hundreds of thousands: a $140,000 bribe bought $16 million in defense contracts.
02Bribes included a 42-foot yacht named 'Duke-Stir,' antique commodes, and a $7,200 Victorian dresser.
03Cunningham, a decorated Vietnam ace with 5 aerial kills, wept openly when entering his guilty plea in 2005.
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01Anzaldúa wrote 'Borderlands/La Frontera' in English, Spanish, Nahuatl, and Tex-Mex within a single paragraph — the code-switching was the argument.
02She grew up harvesting crops in South Texas, the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants who preceded the US border.
03Anzaldúa died in 2004 of diabetes complications — a disease she had written about as inseparable from colonial dispossession.
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01The quest 'The Power of the Atom' rewards 500 caps and a luxury suite for detonating the town.
02Moira Brown, an NPC in Megaton, survives as a ghoul if the player detonates the bomb — she still thanks you.
03The bomb at Megaton's center is a live, undetonated Fat Man-class nuclear device treated as civic furniture.