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Possible extent of Syagrius's kingdom

01Syagrius ruled a rump Roman enclave around Soissons for roughly a decade after the Western Empire fell.
02He fled to Visigoth king Alaric II after defeat, but Clovis threatened war until Alaric surrendered him.
03His execution in 486 CE is often cited as the true final breath of Roman rule in the West.

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01Simmons was bought and resold by seven successive PE firms between 1986 and 2009.
02Each sale loaded Simmons with new debt; by 2009 it carried $1.3 billion and filed for bankruptcy.
03Executives collected $77 million in fees and dividends in the final deal cycle before bankruptcy wiped out workers' pensions.

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01A German rifle bullet severed Inouye's arm mid-throw; he finished the throw with his other hand.
02He was denied service at a barbershop while still in uniform on his way home from the war.
03Inouye served 49 years in the U.S. Senate — the second-longest-serving senator in history at his death.

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01Diocletian is the only Roman emperor to voluntarily and permanently abdicate while in full power.
02When colleagues begged him to retake power, he replied that if they'd seen his cabbages, they wouldn't ask.
03His palace at Split, Croatia, was so massive that a medieval city grew up inside its walls.

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01Preciado self-administered testosterone for 236 consecutive days while writing 'Testo Junkie' in 2008.
02He named his framework 'pharmacopornography' — the regime of pills and porn governing 21st-century desire.
03Preciado's transition began publicly at age 40, after decades as a female-presenting academic philosopher.

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Close-up of a barbed wire

01Glidden sold his patent share to Washburn & Moen for $60,000 plus royalties in 1876.
02By 1890, the open-range cattle industry was effectively dead — killed by wire, not weather.
03WWI trenches on the Western Front used an estimated 1,200 miles of barbed wire by 1917.

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01Commander Dirk Coetzee ordered bodies of ANC activists burned on a backyard braai grill to eliminate evidence.
02Vlakplaas operated as an official South African Police unit, C1, with a legitimate government budget and payroll.
03Coetzee fled to Lusaka after confessing to journalist Jacques Pauw; South Africa immediately charged him with terrorism.

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01The repository was designed to warn off humans for 10,000 years using non-linguistic symbols.
02Obama's DOE withdrew the license application in 2010, stranding $15 billion of completed work.
03High-level waste currently sits in temporary pools at 75 reactor sites across 33 U.S. states.

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Sworn virgin in Rapsha, Hoti , Ottoman Albania , 1908

01The oath was sworn before twelve male elders; after it, the woman's gender was legally erased.
02Sworn virgins could carry a Martini rifle and sit at the men's table — denied to all other women.
03The practice persisted into the 21st century; anthropologist Antonia Young documented living sworn virgins in the 1990s.

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