gnostek1 / 11A tulip, known as "the Viceroy" ( viseroij ), displayed in the 1637 Dutch catalogue Verzameling van een Meenigte Tulipaanen ("Collection of a Crowd of Tulips"). Its bulb was offered for sale for between 3,000 and 4,200 guilders (florins)…
01The Semper Augustus, the most prized tulip, fetched 10,000 guilders in early 1637 — roughly 10 years of a skilled craftsman's wages.
02Futures contracts for tulip bulbs still underground were being traded in taverns; buyers never saw the actual bulb.
03By May 1637, Haarlem courts ruled tulip contracts unenforceable, effectively wiping out every outstanding futures position.
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01The Battle of Qadisiyyah in 636 AD ended four days of fighting with Rostam's death and Sasanian collapse.
02Persian legend records his sister, Gordafarid, donning armor and charging Arab lines upon hearing of his death.
03His defeat ended 400 years of Sasanian rule and opened Persia permanently to Islamic conquest.
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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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01Gein crafted a full 'woman suit' from skin to wear while dancing under the moonlight.
02Police found ten skulls — some sawn open, some used as bowls — at his farmhouse in 1957.
03He killed only two confirmed people; his most disturbing trophies came from exhumed graves.
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01The U.S. State Department placed a $1 million bounty on Sahiron under the Rewards for Justice program.
02Sahiron lost one arm in combat; he continues to command active operations in Sulu province.
03He has survived multiple AFP offensives, drone surveillance campaigns, and internal Abu Sayyaf leadership purges.
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01At least 85 people were killed in 48 hours; the true number may exceed 200 — records were destroyed.
02Röhm and Hitler had been on a first-name basis since 1919 — a familiarity almost no one else was granted.
03The German cabinet retroactively legalized the murders three days later, calling them 'emergency state defense.'
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01The dividing line between Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd runs through Germany to this day, each operating independently.
02Together the two chains operate over 10,000 stores across more than 20 countries.
03Theo Albrecht was kidnapped in 1971 and held for 17 days before being released for a reported ransom of 7 million DM.
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01Soldiers stripped Landauer, beat him with rifle butts, then shot him in the Stadelheim prison yard.
02Landauer had served as Commissioner of Enlightenment in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic for just weeks.
03His friend Martin Buber collected and published his unfinished writings as an act of mourning.
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01Drew's cattle-watering trick added hundreds of pounds per animal before the weighmaster's scale.
02He printed $10 million in unauthorized Erie Railroad shares to defeat Cornelius Vanderbilt's takeover bid in 1868.
03Drew died broke in 1879, his entire fortune lost in the panic he had helped engineer.