gnostek1 / 5The Great Bath. The Roman bath itself is substantially intact but everything above the level of the pillar bases is of a later date.
01130 curse tablets — defixiones — have been recovered from the Bath spring since excavations began in 1979.
02Many curses were written in retrograde script, presumably to make them readable only by the goddess below.
03Stolen bath towels, clothing, and coins appear more often than love or death in the curses — mundane grievance as ritual.
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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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01Black Tuesday, October 29, saw 16 million shares sold; the Dow lost 12% of its value in a single session.
02U.S. GDP fell 30% between 1929 and 1933; unemployment reached 25% — one in four American workers.
03The crash wiped out roughly $30 billion in market value within two weeks, equivalent to the entire U.S. GDP at the time.
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01The Robert Bosch Stiftung distributes roughly €200 million annually to health, education, and civil society causes.
02Bosch GmbH employs over 400,000 people across 60 countries, entirely outside stock market pressure.
03Robert Bosch introduced the world's first high-voltage magneto ignition for automobiles in 1897.
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01The Hoxne Hoard contained 14,865 gold and silver coins, 200 gold and silver objects, and weighed nearly 8 kg total.
02A gold body-chain belonging to 'Juliane' — her name stamped in the clasp — was among the jewelry; she buried it around AD 407.
03Lawes received a full market-value reward of £1.75 million, split with the landowner; he donated part to the local church.
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01Ruffians can be hired to beat piñatas to death; the candy spills are the death animation.
02Certain predator species eat others whole; if the prey species reaches zero, it never returns that save file.
03The game shipped in 2006 rated E for Everyone, despite containing species extinction as a core mechanic.
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01D'Éon negotiated secretly with Empress Elizabeth of Russia on behalf of Louis XV, disguised as a woman at the Russian court.
02In 1777, Louis XVI issued a formal royal order requiring d'Éon to live permanently as a woman.
03London gamblers wagered £120,000 on d'Éon's birth sex — a legal dispute that outlasted her diplomatic career.
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01Vercingetorix united over thirty Gallic tribes — the only leader ever to do so against Rome in the Gallic Wars.
02He was held in the Tullianum prison in Rome for six years before being paraded in Caesar's triumph and executed in 46 BC.
03At Alesia, Vercingetorix ordered civilians expelled from the town to save food; Caesar refused to let them through his lines and they starved in the gap.
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01Oak Ridge, Tennessee — a city of 75,000 — was built in secret and omitted from maps.
02The Trinity test on July 16, 1945 vaporized the steel tower and fused desert sand into glass.
03J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance was later revoked by the government he'd saved.