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01Holt's body was never found despite one of Australia's largest naval search operations covering 10 square miles of coastline.
02A 1983 biography floated the theory that a Chinese submarine extracted Holt, who was allegedly a spy — taken seriously enough to be officially denied.
03Australia named a swimming center the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in his honor.

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01Babur's 12,000 men faced Ibrahim Lodi's 100,000 soldiers and 1,000 war elephants at Panipat in 1526.
02Babur used Ottoman-style field artillery — the first time guns decided a major Indian battle.
03The Mughal dynasty born at Panipat lasted until the British exiled Bahadur Shah II in 1857.

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01Ferrer's Escuela Moderna gave boys and girls identical curricula — heretical in 1901 Catholic Spain.
02He was convicted of 'intellectual authorship' of the 1909 Tragic Week riots despite no direct evidence.
03His execution triggered protest riots across Europe, toppling the Spanish prime minister within weeks.

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01Sulla's lists killed an estimated 520 senators and 1,600 equestrians; their property was auctioned, proceeds to the state.
02Anyone who sheltered a proscribed man was automatically added to the list — loyalty became a death sentence.
03Cicero's severed hands and head were displayed on the Rostra where his speeches had won him fame.

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01The Gauls held Rome for seven months; the ransom was 1,000 pounds of gold before Brennus added his sword.
02'Vae victis' — woe to the conquered — became the phrase Rome never forgot and never forgave.
03Rome's humiliation was so total that they later invented a legend where Camillus rode in to stop the payment.

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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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01'Back to Back' was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2016 Grammys — the first diss track ever nominated.
02Meek Mill had alleged via Twitter that Drake used ghostwriter Quentin Miller, then released no musical response for weeks.
03Drake performed the song at the OVO Fest with a Meek Mill bobblehead onstage, institutionalizing the humiliation.

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01The Book of Kells was created around 800 CE, likely beginning on the Scottish island of Iona before moving to Ireland.
02Under magnification, a single decorated initial reveals interlaced animals so fine the lines are less than 0.5mm apart.
03Two cats nursing four kittens appear in the margin of folio 34r — a domestic scene tucked inside sacred scripture.

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01Bosco beat two human candidates in Sunol's 1981 election and served as honorary mayor for 13 years.
02A statue of Bosco was erected in Sunol after his death in 1994, commemorating his service to the 900-person town.
03Chinese state media once used Bosco's election as anti-democracy propaganda, arguing it proved American elections were meaningless.

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