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01Colonel Connor reported 224 Shoshone dead; tribal oral histories count closer to 400, including infants.
02Soldiers destroyed 75 lodges and seized 1,000 bushels of grain, leaving survivors to freeze in January cold.
03Connor was promoted to brigadier general and praised in San Francisco newspapers within weeks of the massacre.

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01The Dacian haul of 165 tonnes of gold was the largest single treasure seizure in Roman history.
02Trajan celebrated the victory with 123 days of games involving 11,000 animals and 10,000 gladiators.
03Dacia's king Decebalus cut his own throat rather than be paraded through Rome in Trajan's triumph.

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A procession in the San Callistus catacombs in Rome , painted by Alberto Pisa

01The catacombs hold roughly 8,000 bodies, the oldest dating to 1599 when monks discovered their dead preserved naturally.
02Rosalia Lombardo, embalmed in 1920 at age two, is still so lifelike she is called 'the Sleeping Beauty of Palermo.'
03Sections are divided by social rank: priests, professionals, virgins, and children each occupy separate corridors.

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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 decree was first invoked in 121 BC to justify killing Gaius Gracchus and 3,000 of his supporters.
02It suspended habeas corpus entirely — no trial, no appeal, just consular authority to execute.
03Caesar crossed the Rubicon partly because he feared a senatus consultum ultimum would be levelled at him.

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01Babur's 12,000 men faced Ibrahim Lodi's 100,000 soldiers and 1,000 war elephants at Panipat in 1526.
02Babur used Ottoman-style field artillery — the first time guns decided a major Indian battle.
03The Mughal dynasty born at Panipat lasted until the British exiled Bahadur Shah II in 1857.

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01Lorz rode in a car for miles 11 through 21, then jogged the final five to the finish line.
02Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, had already placed the winner's laurels on Lorz's head.
03The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his handlers during the race as a stimulant.

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Cosmic flux versus particle energy at the top of Earth's atmosphere

01The 'Oh-My-God particle' had energy 3×10^20 eV — 40 million times more than CERN's LHC can produce.
02Above ~5×10^19 eV, the GZK limit predicts particles should be shredded by CMB photons en route — yet it arrived.
03Its source remains unknown; no known astrophysical accelerator within 160 million light-years can explain it.

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01NotPetya had no functional decryption mechanism; it was pure destruction costumed as a ransom demand.
02Shipping giant Maersk lost $300 million and had to reinstall 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers.
03It spread via a poisoned update to MeDoc, Ukrainian accounting software used by most of the country.

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