gnostek1 / 5An illustration of Cantor's diagonal argument (in base 2) for the existence of uncountable sets . The sequence at the bottom cannot occur anywhere in the enumeration of sequences above.
01Cantor's diagonal argument fits on one page: construct a number differing from every listed entry at position n.
02It proved the reals are 'uncountably' infinite — a strictly larger infinity than the counting numbers.
03Cantor suffered repeated breakdowns; fellow mathematician Kronecker called him a 'corrupter of youth.'
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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.
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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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01Chopin died October 17, 1849; the game's story ends on that exact date inside the dream world.
02Each in-game musical piece is performed by an orchestra and corresponds to a real Chopin opus number.
03The final boss fight plays Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu — a piece he explicitly asked to be destroyed unpublished.
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01Jackson was hit by three bullets from the 18th North Carolina Infantry — his own rear guard.
02His left arm was amputated; Lee said 'he has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.'
03Jackson died of pneumonia on May 10, 1863 — eight days after the friendly-fire volley.
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01The Palace of the Parliament is the world's heaviest building at roughly 4,098,500 tonnes.
02Ceaușescu demolished 19 Orthodox churches and 6 synagogues to clear the construction site.
03So much of Romania's national budget was consumed that winters in the 1980s brought nationwide blackouts and food rationing.
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01Roxas sued Ferdinand Marcos in a Hawaii court and won a $22 billion judgment in 1996 — the largest ever against a head of state.
02Japanese engineers allegedly dug over 170 tunnel complexes across the Philippines between 1942 and 1945 to conceal looted Asian wealth.
03Marcos reportedly had the golden Buddha Roxas found melted and recast to erase provenance markings.
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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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01Josephus records 1,100,000 dead and 97,000 enslaved during the siege — mostly Passover pilgrims trapped inside.
02The golden Menorah looted from the Temple is carved in victory on the Arch of Titus, still standing in Rome.
03Titus reportedly wept at the Temple's destruction, calling it an act of divine wrath beyond his command.