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01Quisling announced himself as Prime Minister on Norwegian national radio on April 9, 1940 — the same day German troops landed.
02His collaborationist government oversaw the deportation of Norway's Jewish population; 773 were killed at Auschwitz.
03He was shot at Akershus Fortress on October 24, 1945 — the very citadel he had helped deliver to the occupation.

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The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection .

01Jerry Ehman wrote 'Wow!' in red pen on the Ohio State Big Ear printout on August 15, 1977.
02The signal hit exactly the 1420 MHz hydrogen frequency SETI researchers had predicted aliens would use.
03Forty-seven years of follow-up observations have produced zero repetitions or explanations.

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01The bone chandelier contains at least one of every bone in the human body.
02František Rint bleached and wired 40,000 skeletons after Black Death mass graves were exhumed in 1278.
03The Schwarzenberg coat of arms, rendered in bone, includes a sculpted raven pecking a severed eye socket.

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01The Pingfang complex covered six square kilometers, with a dedicated rail spur for prisoner delivery.
02Its crematorium ran continuously; ash output was used to estimate monthly prisoner death rates.
03Construction workers, numbering roughly 15,000, were killed after completion to prevent disclosure of the layout.

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01A three-month-old infant was stabbed through the heart with a wooden stake at a 1994 Quebec site.
02Fires ignited simultaneously in chalets in Cheiry and Salvan, Switzerland, and Morin-Heights, Quebec, on October 4–5, 1994.
03A final wave in 1997 killed 5 more in Quebec; the youngest was 16, the oldest 69.

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01Paine wrote Part I of The Age of Reason in a single night before his arrest in December 1793.
02He was saved from the guillotine because a chalk mark on his door—the execution signal—faced inward, not out.
03The book was banned in Britain, and booksellers who sold it were sentenced to years of hard labor.

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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'

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01Brownmiller examined rape in the 1971 Bangladesh war, estimating 200,000 to 400,000 women assaulted as a military strategy.
02She dedicated a chapter to marital rape at a time it was legal in all 50 U.S. states.
03The book sold over a million copies and is credited with shifting rape law reform in the late 1970s.

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01Hapilon's 2014 bayah to al-Baghdadi was among the earliest Southeast Asian pledges to the Islamic State.
02The pledge reframed Abu Sayyaf's criminal ransom operations as acts of caliphate warfare.
03By 2017, the alliance produced the Marawi siege — the largest urban ISIS battle outside the Middle East.

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