gnostek1 / 22Anti-immigrant protesters in Calais hold a sign in French reading "Diversity is a code word for white genocide", above a banner calling for remigration (8 November 2015).
01Brenton Tarrant's manifesto explicitly named South African farm murders as a radicalizing grievance before killing 51 people.
02The 'white genocide' framing was amplified by U.S. white nationalist sites beginning around 2012, long before Trump's tweet.
03South Africa's murder rate for white citizens is statistically lower per capita than for Black citizens.
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01The dik-dik's preorbital gland sits so close to the eye that marking a twig looks like self-blinding.
02Mated pairs are monogamous for life; the male shadow-follows the female within two body-lengths at all times.
03When alarmed, dik-diks produce a sharp 'dik-dik' nasal whistle that named the entire species.
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01The installation '127 Cuerpos' used water from 127 autopsied murder victims to create the gallery's ambient humidity.
02Margolles worked for years as a forensic technician in Mexico City before becoming an artist — the morgue was her studio.
03In another work she sewed fabric with thread soaked in the bodily fluids of homicide victims.
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01Burden gave a single instruction: 'Shoot me.' The assistant complied from 15 feet away.
02No hospital record was filed immediately; Burden treated the wound himself that night.
03The piece, 'Shoot,' appeared in no gallery at the time — it was performed in a rented garage.
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01Rommel captured Monte Matajur with 150 men, taking 9,000 prisoners — earning the Pour le Mérite at age 29.
02Italy lost 300,000 prisoners, 10,000 dead, and 30,000 wounded in six days of fighting at Caporetto.
03The catastrophe directly inspired Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms' — he drove ambulances on that front.
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01Cerberus paid $7.4 billion for Chrysler in May 2007; Chrysler filed for bankruptcy by April 2009.
02Daimler paid Cerberus $650 million to take Chrysler off its hands — a negative sale price.
03The U.S. government ultimately injected $12.5 billion to rescue the company Cerberus had just bought.
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01Gein crafted a full 'woman suit' from skin to wear while dancing under the moonlight.
02Police found ten skulls — some sawn open, some used as bowls — at his farmhouse in 1957.
03He killed only two confirmed people; his most disturbing trophies came from exhumed graves.
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01Doe was 28 years old and held no officer's rank when he personally led the executive mansion raid.
02The beach executions of 13 ministers on April 22, 1980 were filmed and broadcast internationally.
03Doe was himself captured in 1990, tortured, and killed on video by Prince Johnson's rebel faction.
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01Roxas sued Ferdinand Marcos in a Hawaii court and won a $22 billion judgment in 1996 — the largest ever against a head of state.
02Japanese engineers allegedly dug over 170 tunnel complexes across the Philippines between 1942 and 1945 to conceal looted Asian wealth.
03Marcos reportedly had the golden Buddha Roxas found melted and recast to erase provenance markings.