01Born Crawford Goldsby, he killed his first man at eighteen over a dispute about a beating.
02He was hanged at Fort Smith in 1896 at age twenty — singing on the scaffold.
03Judge Isaac Parker sentenced him; the courtroom gallery reportedly fell silent when Cherokee Bill began to sing.
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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.
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01A neutron star packs 1.4 solar masses into a sphere roughly 20 km across.
02Its surface gravity is 200 billion times Earth's — a marshmallow dropped from 1 meter hits with nuclear-bomb force.
03The crust is so rigid that a 'starquake' of 1 mm releases more energy than the Sun emits in 100,000 years.
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01His Cyrus Cylinder, 539 BC, is the oldest known declaration of religious and ethnic tolerance by a ruler.
02Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae allegedly beheaded Cyrus and submerged his head in a skin of blood.
03He freed the Babylonian Jewish exile — ~40,000 people — and funded the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple.
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01Caesar's soldiers killed roughly 10,000 Pompeians and captured 15,000 at Thapsus; the lopsided toll suggests a rout, not a battle.
02Ancient sources including Plutarch record Caesar falling into a seizure at the onset, carried to a nearby tower to recover while his army fought without him.
03After the battle, Caesar's own veterans executed several surrendered enemy officers on the spot — Caesar was reportedly unable to stop them.
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01Parkhurst voted in the 1868 U.S. presidential election in Santa Cruz County, the first known trans man to do so in America.
02Described by contemporaries as among the finest stagecoach drivers on the California-Oregon run, handling six-horse teams in mountain snow.
03At death in 1879, a coroner's examination revealed Parkhurst's birth sex — news that reached newspapers across the country within days.
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01Spartacus's army defeated eight separate Roman forces before Crassus finally cornered them in 71 BC.
02The 6,000 crucified prisoners lined the road from Capua to Rome — each cross visible from the last.
03His corpse was never identified; Rome could not even stage a proper triumph over him.
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01The PDP-1 cost $120,000 in 1961; the students had no official authorization to monopolize it nightly.
02Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, and Steve Russell coded it across several months of stolen lab time.
03Its source code was the first program freely shared between institutions, predating open-source by decades.
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01Versailles troops executed an estimated 10,000 Communards during 'Bloody Week,' May 21–28, 1871.
02The Communards burned the Tuileries Palace and the Paris Hôtel de Ville as troops closed in.
03The Commune abolished night-work for bakers and cancelled rents — then ceased to exist in 72 days.