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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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01Cho mailed a video manifesto to NBC News between his two attacks, a 2-hour window police did not close.
0232 people were killed; the Virginia Tech massacre remains the deadliest U.S. campus shooting on record.
03The shooting exposed a gap in federal law: Cho had been ruled mentally ill but passed background checks.

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01Parton's $1 million donation to Vanderbilt in April 2020 was credited in Moderna's early vaccine research acknowledgments.
02When Tennessee proposed a capitol statue of her, she personally requested the legislature withdraw the bill.
03She established the Imagination Library in 1995, which has since mailed over 200 million free books to children.

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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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Memorial stone to the Ems dispatch in Bad Ems

01Bismarck edited the Ems Dispatch over dinner, then released it to newspapers the same evening.
02France declared war on Prussia within five days of the doctored text appearing in print.
03The resulting Franco-Prussian War ended with Germany's proclamation as a unified empire at Versailles.

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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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01The game has no combat system, no health bar, and no way to lose — only the ocean and its creatures.
02A humpback whale named Matthew appears at a specific depth and time of in-game day, and players sought him out.
03Endless Ocean was developed by Arika, a small studio best known for Street Fighter EX — an unlikely tenderness.

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01Booker consumed 49 glazed doughnuts in 8 minutes — roughly one every 9.8 seconds.
02He weighed approximately 400 pounds during his competitive eating peak and stood 6 feet 3 inches.
03Off the circuit, Booker works as a New York City Transit subway conductor and records rap music.

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A thermite mixture using iron(III) oxide

01Thermite burns at 2,500 °C — hotter than the surface of most lava flows.
02Water poured on burning thermite causes a steam explosion, making it actively worse to fight.
03U.S. military M14 incendiary grenades use thermite specifically to destroy field artillery beyond enemy recovery.

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