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01The basalt cliff beneath the village is formed from two superimposed lava flows and is roughly 200,000 years old.
02At its narrowest point, the inhabited promontory is only 50 metres wide with sheer 50-metre drops on both sides.
03The oldest houses in the village have no rear walls — the cliff face itself serves as the back of the building.

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01The $25 billion 1989 buyout held the record as the largest LBO for 17 years.
02CEO Ross Johnson proposed the buyout himself, expecting to walk away with a $100 million golden parachute.
03The deal inspired 'Barbarians at the Gate,' which sold over a million copies and became an HBO film.

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01DeSimone arrived expecting to be 'made'; the ceremony was a staged execution ordered by the Gambino family.
02His body was never found — a point Goodfellas preserves almost verbatim in its final act.
03DeSimone had already killed at least nine people, including made man Billy Batts, sealing his fate with the bosses.

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01Ban Chao launched his career by burning a Xiongnu envoy's camp with only 36 men in 73 CE.
02He held the Western Regions — Rome's trade frontier — for three decades with minimal imperial reinforcement.
03He died in 102 CE, aged 70, having just been granted his wish to return to Luoyang.

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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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2nd-century AD Roman statue of a Virgo Vestalis Maxima ( National Roman Museum )

01The underground chamber included a small bed, lamp, bread, and water — Rome's legal fiction of non-murder.
02Vestals served 30-year terms; unchastity before completion meant live burial in the Campus Sceleratus.
03Her seducer was publicly flogged to death — but she alone was entombed.

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01The Robert Bosch Stiftung distributes roughly €200 million annually to health, education, and civil society causes.
02Bosch GmbH employs over 400,000 people across 60 countries, entirely outside stock market pressure.
03Robert Bosch introduced the world's first high-voltage magneto ignition for automobiles in 1897.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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01Ded Gjo Luli's death poem, sung at highland funerals, specifies he was outnumbered at least ten to one.
02His name became a Kanun formula — mediators invoke him by name to shame families refusing reconciliation.
03The historical record of his life is nearly empty; the legend grew to fill the vacuum within a generation.

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