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01He brought a sacred black conical stone from Emesa to Rome, housing it above Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill.
02He married Aquilia Severa, a Vestal Virgin — a capital offense under Roman law — calling it a holy union.
03Assassinated at 18 by the Praetorian Guard; his body was stuffed into a drain after the Tiber rejected it.

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01AWB members stormed the Kempton Park CODESA negotiations in 1993, driving an armored vehicle through the glass entrance.
02Three AWB members were shot dead by a lone Black police officer during the Bophuthatswana invasion in 1994.
03Terre'Blanche was photographed passed out drunk in a Johannesburg gutter in 2001, ending the movement's mystique.

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A fortified tower ( kullë ) used as a safe haven for men involved in a blood feud. Theth , northern Albania.

01Entire male family lines are confined indoors; children miss school for years, fearing lawful execution outside.
02By 2008, an estimated 1,500 Albanian families were living in self-imposed lockdown due to active blood feuds.
03The feud obligation passes to sons if fathers die — a debt that compounds across generations.

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01The rope was too long for Ketchum's weight; the jerk of the 1901 drop severed his head entirely from his body.
02His headless torso stood upright for several seconds before falling — witnessed by a crowd of several hundred.
03Ketchum's last words were 'I'll be in hell before you start breakfast, boys' — the drop came immediately after.

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01The fundraiser cost $50,000 per plate; the bartender, Scott Prouty, filmed it on a Sony camera.
02Romney said the 47% who pay no income tax will 'vote for the president no matter what' — meaning Obama.
03Prouty came forward publicly on MSNBC three months after the election, explaining he acted on conscience.

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01Empress Fu was dragged past Emperor Xian in the corridor to her execution; he could not intervene.
02Cao Cao forced Xian to marry his own daughter after murdering Empress Fu, consolidating control through the bedchamber.
03Emperor Xian outlived the Han dynasty by fourteen years, dying peacefully in 234 CE as a feudal prince.

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3D illustration of Gabriel's horn

01The horn's volume is exactly π cubic units — a clean, finite number.
02Its surface area is infinite, calculated by the same integral that gives the volume.
03Evangelista Torricelli discovered the paradox around 1643, calling it a 'mystical' geometric object.

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01Derby-Lewis's list contained the names, addresses, and vehicle registration numbers of over 60 ANC targets.
02His wife Gaye Derby-Lewis typed the final version of the list and was convicted alongside him as a co-conspirator.
03Derby-Lewis applied for amnesty to the TRC but was denied; he died in prison of cancer in 2016.

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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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