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01He declared his horse Incitatus a consul, with a marble stable, ivory manger, and dinner invitations sent in the horse's name.
02He built a temporary 3-mile floating bridge of boats across the Bay of Baiae and rode across it in Alexander's breastplate.
03Assassinated at 28 with 30 stab wounds; his wife and infant daughter were killed the same day.

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01Soldiers stripped Landauer, beat him with rifle butts, then shot him in the Stadelheim prison yard.
02Landauer had served as Commissioner of Enlightenment in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic for just weeks.
03His friend Martin Buber collected and published his unfinished writings as an act of mourning.

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01York's Tama-Re compound in Eatonton, Georgia, included a full-scale pyramid, sphinx, and obelisk he built himself.
02Federal conviction in 2004 cited 117 counts of child molestation; victims ranged from age 4 to 14.
03York claimed he was an alien from the 'Illyuwn' galaxy sent to prepare Black Americans for ascension.

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Enemies being killed and roasted in South America – engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592)

01Kuru, spread by endocannibalism among the Fore people, killed an estimated 1,100 people between 1957 and 2004.
02Women and children ate the brain and organs; men ate muscle — explaining why women died at far higher rates.
03Nobel laureate D. Carleton Gajdusek identified kuru's prion cause in 1976 after living with the Fore for years.

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Tollund Man , Denmark, 4th century BC

01Tollund Man's last meal, eaten 12 hours before death, was barley-and-linseed porridge — still identifiable in his stomach.
02Many bog bodies show signs of 'overkill': strangled, throat cut, and then drowned — triple death rituals.
03The acidic, oxygen-free peat dissolves bone while perfectly tanning and preserving skin, hair, and internal organs.

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01Solanas set the price at 10 cents for men and free for women — the differential was the argument.
02She shot Andy Warhol on June 3, 1968, citing his failure to return a manuscript she had given him.
03The Manifesto was reprinted by Olympia Press in 1968 while Solanas was in psychiatric custody; she had not authorized it.

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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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01The U.S. State Department placed a $1 million bounty on Sahiron under the Rewards for Justice program.
02Sahiron lost one arm in combat; he continues to command active operations in Sulu province.
03He has survived multiple AFP offensives, drone surveillance campaigns, and internal Abu Sayyaf leadership purges.

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01Muhammad's actual target was his ex-wife Mildred; the 10 random killings were designed as camouflage.
02He had trained Malvo, then a teenager, for months before the 2002 attacks began.
03Muhammad was executed at Greensville Correctional Center, Virginia, on November 10, 2009.

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