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01The SAPS Rural Safety Unit was disbanded in 2007, citing budget restructuring, not case clearance rates.
02South Africa's overall murder conviction rate hovers near 12%; farm attack cases track even lower.
03Parliamentary testimony documented dockets physically removed from police stations before court dates.

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01Apollo was founded in 1990 with $400 million raised in just weeks after Drexel's collapse.
02Black was barred by the SEC from serving as an investment adviser — Apollo structured around the restriction.
03By 2023, Apollo Global Management oversaw roughly $600 billion in assets under management.

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01JACL national secretary Mike Masaoka publicly backed internment compliance in 1942, calling resisters 'disloyal.'
02The JACL formally apologized in 2000 to the Heart Mountain draft resisters it had denounced as cowards 58 years earlier.
03Some JACL leaders provided lists of community members to the FBI before the evacuation orders were issued.

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01York's Tama-Re compound in Eatonton, Georgia, included a full-scale pyramid, sphinx, and obelisk he built himself.
02Federal conviction in 2004 cited 117 counts of child molestation; victims ranged from age 4 to 14.
03York claimed he was an alien from the 'Illyuwn' galaxy sent to prepare Black Americans for ascension.

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Recreation of Martin Luther King Jr. 's cell in Birmingham Jail at the National Civil Rights Museum

01King wrote in the margins of a Birmingham newspaper because guards had initially denied him paper.
02The letter responds point by point to eight named white Alabama clergymen who called the protests 'unwise.'
03Circulated first as a pamphlet by the American Friends Service Committee before reaching millions of readers.

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01Mahler co-founded the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Group) in 1970 as a Marxist revolutionary organization.
02Decades later, he publicly sent a Hitler-salute greeting card to the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
03By 2009, sentenced to over 12 years for Holocaust denial, he saluted the judge from the defendant's bench.

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01The Arabic term 'mellified man' translates literally as 'the one soaked in honey,' documented in Li Shizhen's 1596 Chinese pharmacopoeia.
02The candidate's sweat, tears, and excrement were said to turn to honey before death — the whole body crystallized.
03No physical specimen has ever been confirmed; historians debate whether the practice was myth, metaphor, or literal trade good.

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01Bunnies were required to submit to an internal physical examination by a Playboy-approved doctor to keep their jobs.
02Steinem documented that managers routinely pocketed portions of customer tips before Bunnies received them.
03The costume's rigid corset caused documented back injuries; Bunnies were expected to maintain the 'Bunny dip' posture regardless.

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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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