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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01Senator Joseph Lieberman named Night Trap by title in a 1993 Senate subcommittee hearing on video game violence.
02The game was originally developed for the unreleased NEMO console in 1987 — six years before its Senate debut.
03Sega pulled Night Trap from shelves voluntarily during the hearings; it was later re-released on Steam in 2017.
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01To evade censors, the Tractatus was reprinted with false title pages labeling it a work on medicine and surgery.
02It was banned by the Dutch Reformed Church, the Catholic Index, and multiple civil authorities within three years.
03Spinoza never acknowledged authorship publicly; contemporaries confirmed it only from private letters after his death in 1677.
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01Powell's February 5, 2003 presentation included a small vial he waved to illustrate anthrax quantities — it was theater.
02The Downing Street Memo, written months earlier, had already confirmed intelligence was being 'fixed around the policy.'
03Powell spent five years writing his memoirs partly to document how CIA chief George Tenet personally vouched for the data.
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01Donaghy bet on 57 NBA games between 2005 and 2007, going 70–80% accurate due to inside information.
02He passed tips to Thomas Martino, a childhood friend with mob connections, using pre-paid burner phones.
03Donaghy served 15 months in federal prison; his allegations that the NBA itself manipulated playoff games were never formally investigated.
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01The scroll lists roughly 65 tons of gold and silver buried across 64 locations — an implausibly large figure for the era.
02It was written in a Hebrew dialect so unusual that scholars initially couldn't agree on its translation for decades.
03Unlike every other Dead Sea Scroll, the Copper Scroll is purely a ledger — no theology, no narrative, just coordinates.
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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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01Born Crawford Goldsby, he killed his first man at eighteen over a dispute about a beating.
02He was hanged at Fort Smith in 1896 at age twenty — singing on the scaffold.
03Judge Isaac Parker sentenced him; the courtroom gallery reportedly fell silent when Cherokee Bill began to sing.
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01François Mitterrand ate two ortolans at his last meal, eight days before dying of prostate cancer.
02The bird is drowned in Armagnac brandy, roasted, then eaten skull-first, bones cracking in the mouth.
03Ortolan hunting has been illegal in France since 1999; the tradition continued in secret among the elite.