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01The last log entry, dated November 25, 1872, placed the ship near the Azores; she was found 400 miles off course.
02Captain Benjamin Briggs had brought his wife and two-year-old daughter aboard; all three vanished with the crew.
03Nine of the 1,701 alcohol barrels were found empty on inspection — the only anomaly in an otherwise untouched cargo.

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01Milken paid a $600 million fine in 1990 — the largest securities-industry penalty recorded to that point.
02He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993 and subsequently donated hundreds of millions to cancer research.
03Donald Trump pardoned Milken in February 2020, 30 years after his guilty plea to securities fraud.

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01Atwood co-founded Unotchit Inc. in 2004 to commercialize the LongPen, which transmits handwriting via tablet in real time.
02She has published over sixty books across poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism across six decades.
03Her novel 'The Handmaid's Tale,' published in 1985, spent 52 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list after the 2016 U.S. election.

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01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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01Buckner played on severely damaged ankles, wearing high-top cleats for support that may have slowed his glove.
02Manager John McNamara later admitted he meant to pull Buckner for defense but forgot in the excitement.
03The Red Sox led 5–3 in the 10th inning with two outs and two strikes on the batter before the error.

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01At Awazu in 1184, Tomoe Gozen decapitated enemy commander Onda no Moroshige in open battle.
02Her lover Minamoto no Yoshinaka commanded her to flee before dying, unwilling to die beside a woman.
03She appears in the Heike Monogatari described as 'a warrior worth a thousand' — then disappears entirely.

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01Hayashi killed 19 enemy soldiers in one engagement near Tendola, Italy, in April 1945.
02His Medal of Honor was withheld for 55 years; a 1996 law ordered a review of all Japanese American WWII awards.
03He was one of 21 Japanese Americans upgraded to Medal of Honor in a single White House ceremony in June 2000.

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01The U.S. natural ice industry harvested over 25 million tons annually from lakes by 1880.
02Ice was cut in winter, packed in sawdust, and stored in insulated warehouses until summer delivery.
03A failed ice delivery on a hot day could spoil a family's entire weekly food supply by evening.

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01Cassini's final plunge on September 15, 2017 lasted 91 seconds before the spacecraft disintegrated.
02Its cameras found liquid methane lakes on Titan — the only extraterrestrial surface lakes ever confirmed.
03Enceladus's water-vapor geysers, discovered by Cassini, shoot ice 500 km into space.

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