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01Antony left his own fleet and boarded a smaller vessel to chase Cleopatra's retreating squadron.
02Octavian captured or sank roughly 200 ships; Antony's abandoned army surrendered seven days later.
03Cleopatra had brought her personal treasury aboard — the fleet may have been covering a financial retreat.

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01Frederick's army lost 19,000 men — nearly half his force — in roughly six hours on August 12, 1759.
02Frederick wrote that night: 'I will not survive the ruin of my country' and signed over command.
03Russia and Austria failed to advance after the victory — the 'Miracle of the House of Brandenburg' saved Prussia.

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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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01Investigator Russell Poole named LAPD officer David Mack as a suspect before resigning in protest.
02Biggie's family sued the City of Los Angeles; a $1.1 billion lawsuit ended in mistrial due to withheld evidence.
03The LAPD suppressed evidence from its own internal investigation for years, per court filings.

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01Law was convicted of murder in London in 1694 but escaped prison and reinvented himself as a monetary theorist.
02His Banque Générale issued paper money backed by nothing; the resulting Mississippi Bubble wiped out France's middle class.
03Louis XV personally granted Law French citizenship and the title Controller-General — the kingdom's highest financial office.

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01Menchú dictated her entire autobiography in Spanish over eight continuous days to anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray.
02She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, becoming the youngest recipient at the time, at age 33.
03Her testimony helped document over 200,000 civilian deaths and disappearances in Guatemala's 36-year civil war.

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01Casartelli won gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics; he died in the Tour just three years later.
02He struck a concrete drainage block on the descent; the impact fractured his skull fatally.
03His Motorola teammates rode stage 16 as a memorial procession, refusing to race, letting Lance Armstrong cross alone.

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01The peregrine's stoop tops 240 mph — faster than a Formula 1 car at full race speed.
02Bony tubercles inside its nostrils slow incoming air so its lungs don't rupture at dive speed.
03Peregrine falcons hunt by diving from directly above, striking prey at angles that make escape geometrically impossible.

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The Zimmermann telegram as it was sent from Washington, D.C. , to Ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt , the German ambassador to Mexico .

01The telegram was decoded by British Naval Intelligence's Room 40, which had cracked German ciphers.
02Germany offered Mexico its 'lost territory' — Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona — as a wartime inducement.
03Zimmermann publicly confirmed the telegram's authenticity, making denial impossible and enraging American public opinion.

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