The History of Sexuality — gnostek

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01Foucault planned six volumes; he finished three before dying of AIDS in 1984 at age 57.
02He argued the 19th-century confession booth and the psychiatrist's couch were the same machine, producing the sexual subject.
03Volume One, published 1976, sold over a million copies — extraordinary for a book dense with Nietzsche and Bentham.

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01Samus cannot use her Varia Suit — which protects against heat — until a commanding officer says she may.
02Director Yoshio Sakamoto took full creative control and deliberately sidelined co-developer Team Ninja's combat instincts.
03Fan and critical backlash was so sustained that Other M reshaped how Nintendo discussed the Metroid series for a decade.

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01Ehlers-Danlos syndrome eliminated enough collagen that his skin detaches from fascia like loose fabric.
02The 15.8 cm stretch was verified by Guinness in 1999 — the skin returned to position unaided.
03He also stretched neck skin over his lower face, covering his mouth completely.

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Sworn virgin in Rapsha, Hoti , Ottoman Albania , 1908

01The oath was sworn before twelve male elders; after it, the woman's gender was legally erased.
02Sworn virgins could carry a Martini rifle and sit at the men's table — denied to all other women.
03The practice persisted into the 21st century; anthropologist Antonia Young documented living sworn virgins in the 1990s.

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01Eight victims were killed in four separate incidents along a 23-mile Virginia National Park Service road.
02Investigators believe the perpetrator may have impersonated a law enforcement officer to approach victims.
03As of 2024, no suspect has ever been charged; the FBI lists the Colonial Parkway murders as unsolved.

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01Spain was officially neutral; the SOE operation risked a diplomatic crisis with Franco's government.
02Agent Gus March-Phillipps led the team aboard the Italian ship Duchessa d'Aosta and captured her crew with chloroform.
03The ships' crews were overpowered and locked below decks; the vessels reached Lagos within hours.

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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 2005 buyout left Toys 'R' Us paying $400 million per year in interest — money that could have funded e-commerce.
02When it filed for bankruptcy in 2017, all 735 U.S. stores closed, eliminating 33,000 jobs.
03After public pressure, the PE owners paid $20 million into a severance fund — less than $1,000 per laid-off worker.

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01Claudia Severa's birthday invitation, written around 100 AD, is the oldest known Latin text by a woman.
02The tablets were preserved for 2,000 years in the waterlogged peat beneath a Yorkshire fort.
03One soldier wrote home complaining of the cold; his mother sent underpants and two pairs of socks.

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