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01Baca was nineteen when he arrested a drunken cowboy in Frisco, New Mexico, triggering the standoff in October 1884.
02The Texans fired an estimated 4,000 rounds into the jacal; Baca killed four men and wounded eight.
03Baca was tried for murder twice and acquitted both times — he later became a lawyer and then a sheriff.

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Chapel interior

01František Rint bleached and arranged the bones of roughly 40,000 people between 1870 and 1872.
02The chandelier contains at least one of every bone in the human body — 206 types, repeated thousands of times.
03The ossuary was created after a 13th-century abbot scattered soil from Jerusalem across the cemetery, making burial there the most coveted in Bohemia.

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01Menander I issued coins bearing his own face on one side and Buddhist symbols on the other — unprecedented for a Greek ruler.
02The Milindapanha, a Pali Buddhist text, records Menander's philosophical debates with the monk Nagasena across dozens of pages.
03His relics were divided among many cities — an honor previously reserved for the Buddha alone.

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01Jane was buried next to Hickok in Deadwood's Mount Moriah Cemetery on August 4, 1903, per her deathbed request.
02She dressed in buckskin and Army uniform throughout her career, often passing as male on military expeditions.
03Her autobiography, published 1896, claimed she married Wild Bill — a claim historians have never been able to verify.

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Corybantian dance , the type of dance most likely danced on Gymnopedia festivals (image from Smith 's Dictionary of Antiquities ).

01The festival lasted several days in July, the hottest period of the Spartan calendar, with no shade permitted.
02Choral competitions involved three age groups — boys, men, and elders — performing simultaneously.
03When news of the defeat at Leuctra arrived mid-festival in 371 BC, the ephors refused to stop the dancing.

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01WannaCry used EternalBlue, an NSA-developed exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
0280,000 NHS devices were hit; surgeries were cancelled and ambulances diverted across England.
03A 22-year-old named Marcus Hutchins halted the attack by registering a $10.69 domain name.

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01Hauser could not walk on grass without excruciating pain; his feet had never touched uneven ground.
02Some 19th-century investigators believed he was the hereditary Prince of Baden, hidden to clear a succession.
03He was stabbed in a public garden in 1833; his killer left no trace — mirroring his own arrival.

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01Jones called the rehearsals 'White Nights'; followers who survived them believed they'd proved their loyalty.
02Congressman Leo Ryan was shot dead on a jungle airstrip hours before the mass suicide began.
03Cyanide was injected by syringe into children's mouths; adults who fled were shot by guards.

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01Milken paid a $600 million fine in 1990 — the largest securities-industry penalty recorded to that point.
02He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993 and subsequently donated hundreds of millions to cancer research.
03Donald Trump pardoned Milken in February 2020, 30 years after his guilty plea to securities fraud.

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