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Line graph illustrating the yields of 30-year US Treasury bonds over 1994. Yields for these bonds rose from 6.17% on January 12 to 8.16% on November 4.

01By 2019, Venezuela's GDP had contracted 65% from its 2013 peak — a collapse deeper than the U.S. Great Depression.
02In 2017, the average Venezuelan lost 11 kg (24 lbs) of body weight due to food scarcity — the 'Maduro diet.'
03Venezuela defaulted on $65 billion in sovereign and PDVSA bonds while maintaining diplomatic flights stocked with luxury goods.

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01El Cid died in 1099 but his armored corpse, tied to Babieca, led the final charge at Valencia.
02He fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers, switching sides twice without losing his legend.
03His nickname 'El Cid' comes from Arabic 'al-sayyid' — meaning 'the lord' — given by his enemies.

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01Hocquenghem published 'Homosexual Desire' in 1972, a year before Foucault's 'The Order of Things' was translated.
02He argued the anus is the one orifice capitalism cannot productively colonize — therefore, liberation lives there.
03Hocquenghem died of AIDS in 1988 at 41, after publicly refusing to hide his diagnosis.

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01Ferrer's Escuela Moderna gave boys and girls identical curricula — heretical in 1901 Catholic Spain.
02He was convicted of 'intellectual authorship' of the 1909 Tragic Week riots despite no direct evidence.
03His execution triggered protest riots across Europe, toppling the Spanish prime minister within weeks.

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01Philby personally warned Soviet spy Donald Maclean in 1951, triggering a defection that consumed British intelligence for a decade.
02He was cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in Parliament in 1955 — an official denial that bought him eight more years.
03When he finally defected to Moscow in 1963, he had been operating for 30 years — recruited at Cambridge in the early 1930s.

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01The killers, aged 19, committed at least 21 murders and filmed several of them for personal entertainment.
02The victim, Sergei Yatzenko, was beaten with a hammer, screwdriver, and pipe over several minutes.
03The video spread globally online before investigators identified the perpetrators partly through leaked footage.

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01Arnett narrated the opening Baghdad strikes live on CNN on January 17, 1991, in real time.
02The Pentagon demanded CNN pull him; CNN refused, citing the public's right to witness the war.
03His reports were the only Western footage from inside Iraq for weeks, watched by an estimated 1 billion viewers.

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01Wasendorf intercepted paper bank statements by rerouting his firm's mail to a personal P.O. box he controlled for two decades.
02The fraud totaled $215 million stolen from roughly 13,000 customers — discovered only when an automated ACH check failed.
03His 2012 suicide attempt failed; he was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison at age 64.

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01Amphetamines and a half-empty brandy flask were found in Simpson's jersey pocket after his death.
02He collapsed twice within 500 metres of the summit; mechanics propped him upright and he pedalled on.
03A granite memorial on Mont Ventoux still receives cycling caps, bidons, and coins left by passing riders.

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