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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01304 of the 918 dead at Jonestown were children, most administered poison by their own parents.
02Jones had rehearsed the mass death at least twice before as 'White Night' loyalty drills.
03Congressman Leo Ryan was shot dead on the airstrip minutes before the poisonings began.
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01Newton initially made £7,000 profit from South Sea shares, then bought back in near the top.
02His total loss of £20,000 equals roughly $3–4 million in today's purchasing power.
03The South Sea Company's supposed trade monopoly covered a route where Spain controlled all the ports.
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01The Arabic term 'mellified man' translates literally as 'the one soaked in honey,' documented in Li Shizhen's 1596 Chinese pharmacopoeia.
02The candidate's sweat, tears, and excrement were said to turn to honey before death — the whole body crystallized.
03No physical specimen has ever been confirmed; historians debate whether the practice was myth, metaphor, or literal trade good.
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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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01Nixon gave no advance notice to the IMF, the G10, or allied finance ministers before the August 15, 1971 broadcast.
02The U.S. held only $10 billion in gold reserves against $80 billion in foreign-held dollar claims at the time.
03The 'temporary' 10% import surcharge Nixon imposed that night was never formally repealed under its original authority.
gnostek1 / 6The eight "Chicago Black Sox"
01The fix was orchestrated by Arnold Rothstein, a New York gambler who bankrolled $80,000 to throw the series.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson hit .375 and drove in six runs during the 'thrown' Series, yet was banned alongside the conspirators.
03All eight players were acquitted at trial in 1921 but were banned from baseball for life by Commissioner Landis the next day.
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01Doom's shareware Episode 1 was downloaded approximately 10 million times in its first two years.
02id Software's nine-person team built the engine and shipped the entire game in under 18 months.
03Doom has been ported to refrigerators, pregnancy tests, and ATMs — an unofficial benchmark for computing itself.
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01Miljanov's 1901 book 'Examples of Humanity and Heroism' was written after he was exiled for a political feud with Prince Nikola.
02He fought his first documented feud battle at age 16 and continued raiding until his fifties.
03He was illiterate for most of his military career; he learned to read specifically to write the book.