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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01116 people died in the blast and subsequent fire; Abu Sayyaf was paid roughly $400 to execute the attack.
02The bomb was concealed inside a television set stored in the vessel's cargo hold.
03It remains the single deadliest terrorist attack on a civilian vessel in peacetime, worldwide.
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01The surrender ceremony was held at Ramna Race Course, Dhaka, before a crowd of thousands.
02Lieutenant General A.A.K. Niazi signed for Pakistan; his army had held East Pakistan for nine months.
0393,000 soldiers surrendered — more than the German capitulation at Stalingrad in 1943.
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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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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.
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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.
gnostek1 / 2"Queens" of Mysore : left, Krishnaraja Wadiyar III 's first wife, Devajammani has a discoloration around the mouth, thought to be due to the blowing of variolation dust in the nose ("nasal insufflation"). Right, his second wife shows the…
01Ottoman variolation predates Jenner by at least 70 years — recorded in Istanbul by 1670.
02Smallpox killed roughly 400,000 Europeans per year in the 18th century before inoculation spread.
03Variolated children received live smallpox; about 1 in 50 died — versus 1 in 3 from natural infection.
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01Gödel was 25 when he published the incompleteness theorems in 1931, ending Hilbert's formalist program.
02He encoded mathematical statements as numbers — 'Gödel numbering' — so a system could talk about itself.
03The Second Theorem: no consistent system can prove its own consistency — foundations float free.
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01Lyon's team was betrayed after a Malay fisherman spotted them near Merapas Island in September 1944.
02Lyon died in a firefight on October 16, 1944, paddling a rubber dinghy toward a Japanese gunboat.
03All 23 members of Operation Rimau were killed or executed — none reached Singapore harbour.