Senatus consultum ultimum — gnostek

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01The decree was first invoked in 121 BC to justify killing Gaius Gracchus and 3,000 of his supporters.
02It suspended habeas corpus entirely — no trial, no appeal, just consular authority to execute.
03Caesar crossed the Rubicon partly because he feared a senatus consultum ultimum would be levelled at him.

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01The 'Nude Oblivion' patch was live within 24 hours of launch; it required no new geometry, only a texture swap.
02Bethesda's inclusion of the meshes forced the ESRB to re-rate Oblivion from Teen to Mature after release.
03The rating change cost retailers who had already shelved Teen-rated stock — a first in ESRB enforcement history.

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01The helmet was found in 263 fragments; conservators spent years reconstructing it like a three-dimensional iron jigsaw.
02The burial ship was 27 meters long and left no wood — only a ghost-stain of iron rivets in the soil.
03Edith Pretty, the landowner, gifted the entire hoard to the British Museum in 1939, one of the largest private donations in its history.

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A slab of pykrete

01Pykrete is 86% ice and 14% sawdust, yet it deflects rifle bullets without shattering.
02Project Habbakuk's planned carrier weighed 2 million tons — dwarfing every steel warship ever built.
03A small Pykrete block was demonstrated to Allied chiefs in a Quebec hotel bathtub in 1943.

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01Custer refused a Gatling gun battery before the march, fearing it would slow him down.
02His column of 210 men was wiped out in under an hour on June 25, 1876.
03Sitting Bull had predicted the exact outcome in a Sun Dance vision days before the battle.

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01The 1995 Tour continued racing the day after Casartelli's death, with Stage 16 treated as a tribute ride.
02Motorola teammates finished Stage 16 holding Casartelli's bike upright across the finish line together.
03Race director Jean-Marie Leblanc faced immediate criticism for not cancelling the stage entirely.

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Messenia , homeland of Sparta's helot population, from Mount Ithome .

01Krypteia initiates were given a knife and sent into the countryside to kill helots without witnesses.
02The ritual was supervised by the ephors — Sparta's top magistrates — making murder an official curriculum.
03Helots outnumbered Spartans roughly 7-to-1; the Krypteia was demographic terror dressed as a rite of passage.

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01The letter was addressed not to a government but to a private citizen, Walter Rothschild.
02Britain simultaneously held agreements with Arab leaders implying contradictory promises over the same land.
03The phrase 'national home' was chosen deliberately — lawyers had argued 'state' carried too much legal weight.

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01Thomson published the paradox in 1954; the total switching time sums to exactly 2 minutes via geometric series.
02Standard mathematics is simply silent — both 'on' and 'off' are consistent with the premises.
03The paradox exposes that infinite processes with defined totals need not have defined final states.

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