gnostek1 / 12The Severan Tondo , c. 199 AD tondo of the Severan family , with portraits of Septimius Severus , Julia Domna , and their sons Caracalla and Geta . The face of one of Severus' and Julia's sons has been erased; it may be Geta's, as a result…
01The Senate formally voted damnatio memoriae against Domitian within hours of his assassination in 96 CE.
02Erasure extended to private households — families destroyed busts and portraits to avoid suspicion of loyalty.
03Caligula's damnatio was so thorough that contemporary likenesses were recarved into portraits of other emperors.
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01Casartelli's skull fractured on a roadside concrete drainage block on the Portet d'Aspet descent.
02He was 24, married, with a son born just months before the race.
03Lance Armstrong won the very next stage and pointed skyward at the line, for Casartelli.
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01ZIPRA commander Joshua Nkomo publicly admitted on the BBC that his forces shot down the Viscount, then laughed.
02Of the fifty-six passengers aboard, eighteen survived the crash; guerrillas then executed ten of them on the ground.
03Survivor Cathy Buckle described a guerrilla standing over the wounded and firing systematically before walking away.
gnostek1 / 4Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (1884)
01Llywelyn drove his sword through Gelert before seeing the wolf's carcass hidden beneath the cradle.
02The village of Beddgelert, Wales, is named for the hound; a grave monument still stands there.
03The legend is likely an 18th-century tourist invention planted by an innkeeper named David Pritchard.
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01Hostages included foreign nationals seized in earlier raids, used as shields inside an active hospital.
02Local officials were later investigated for allegedly allowing Abu Sayyaf fighters to escape the cordon.
03A Congressional inquiry found evidence that military officers may have negotiated a passage out for the gunmen.
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01Temperatures hit −35 °C; rifle bolts froze, morphine syrettes had to be thawed in mouths before use.
02The 1st Marine Division suffered 4,418 battle casualties and 7,338 frostbite casualties in 17 days.
03General Oliver Smith called it not a retreat but 'attacking in a different direction' — 78 miles to the coast.
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01Tiryns's walls reach 17 metres thick — enough to tunnel entire corbelled galleries through the interior.
02The limestone blocks weigh up to 15 tonnes each; no Bronze Age tool marks explain how they were moved.
03Homer described Tiryns as 'wall-girt'; later Greeks believed only giants could have raised the circuit.
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01The Chagai-I mountain visibly changed color — whitening then greying — after the simultaneous five-warhead blast.
02Pakistan's test came exactly seventeen days after India's Pokhran-II, in direct and deliberate response.
03Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif defied reported US pressure and a reported $5 billion bribe to stand down.
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01'Back to Back' was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2016 Grammys — the first diss track ever nominated.
02Meek Mill had alleged via Twitter that Drake used ghostwriter Quentin Miller, then released no musical response for weeks.
03Drake performed the song at the OVO Fest with a Meek Mill bobblehead onstage, institutionalizing the humiliation.