gnostek1 / 9Trump's tweet activity from his first tweet in May 2009 until June 2020
01Trump's tweet on August 22, 2018, named Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as directed to 'closely study' the situation.
02South Africa's rand dropped 1.4% against the dollar within two hours of the tweet.
03The Fox News segment that prompted it aired only hours before Trump posted; no briefing was involved.
gnostek1 / 9Illustration of a Hungarian Hajduk, from an 1703 book from Bavaria.
01Hajduks disbanded each winter to hide among ordinary villagers as farmers, reconvening as armed bands each spring.
02Serbian epic poetry named individual hajduks — Starina Novak, Mijat Tomić — canonizing their kills in oral verse cycles.
03Ottoman authorities offered cash bounties per hajduk head, yet local priests sometimes sheltered them inside monastery walls.
gnostek1 / 21The "Xiaohe Mummy", exhibited in Xinjiang Museum, is one of the oldest Tarim mummies, dating more than 3800 years ago. Another mummy from the same place is the " Princess of Xiaohe ".
01Some Tarim mummies date to 2000 BCE, predating Chinese Han settlement of the region by over a thousand years.
02They wore tartan-weave wool clothing chemically similar to textiles found in Bronze Age Austria and Celtic Europe.
032021 DNA analysis showed they were an isolated population with no close living relatives — not migrants from the west.
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01Bob Dalton was identified by a fake beard he wore as a disguise; a livery owner recognized his horse instead.
02Citizens retrieved rifles from a hardware store and caught the gang in a crossfire in an alley called Death Alley.
03Emmett Dalton survived twenty-three bullet wounds, was pardoned in 1907, and lived until 1937 selling real estate.
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01The team launched from a 70-foot fishing vessel, the Krait, disguised with stain and sarongs as local fishermen.
02Seven Japanese ships totalling approximately 37,000 gross tons were sunk or damaged on September 26–27, 1943.
03The entire six-man team survived and returned to Australia — one of very few WWII special ops with zero losses.
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01Custer refused a Gatling gun battery before the march, fearing it would slow him down.
02His column of 210 men was wiped out in under an hour on June 25, 1876.
03Sitting Bull had predicted the exact outcome in a Sun Dance vision days before the battle.
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01Taichang Emperor died on September 26, 1620 — his 29th day on the throne, cause officially undetermined.
02Court official Li Kezhuo supplied the red pills; he was later exiled but the formula remained secret.
03The 'Red Pill Case' became one of the Three Great Cases of the Wanli era, debated for centuries.
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01Gravano admitted to participating in 19 murders and received only five years under his cooperation deal.
02Gotti's conviction came partly from recordings made inside his Ravenite Social Club in Little Italy.
03After release, Gravano ran an Ecstasy ring in Arizona with his own family — and was arrested again in 2000.
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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.