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01William Quantrill ordered his 400 men to kill every male old enough to hold a gun — including boys as young as fourteen.
02The raiders burned 185 buildings and left Lawrence a smoldering grid before Union cavalry arrived.
03Future outlaws Cole Younger and Frank James rode with Quantrill that morning in Lawrence.

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01The SLA's ransom demand required $2 million in free food distributed to every poor Californian — impossible to fulfill.
02Hearst was photographed holding a carbine during the April 1974 Hibernia Bank robbery, 57 days after her kidnapping.
03She served 22 months of a 7-year sentence before President Carter commuted it; Clinton later granted full pardon.

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Temperature map of the cosmic microwave background measured by the Planck spacecraft

01Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs initially blamed pigeon droppings in the antenna for the noise.
02The CMB temperature is 2.725 Kelvin — just 2.725 degrees above absolute zero, uniform to 1 part in 100,000.
03Its discovery in 1965 killed the Steady State model of the universe and confirmed the Big Bang.

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01The poem is set on Christmas Eve 1702; the killings are framed as a sacrament, not a crime.
02Author Petar II Petrović-Njegoš was simultaneously a prince, a bishop, and the poem's moral narrator.
03Scholars still debate whether the istraga poturica it depicts was a real massacre or a nationalist myth.

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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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01Brancheau had 16 years at SeaWorld and was considered its most accomplished trainer at the time of her death.
02OSHA fined SeaWorld $75,000 and banned trainers from entering the water with orcas — a rule SeaWorld fought in court for years.
03Internal documents showed SeaWorld knew Tilikum had been involved in two prior deaths before Brancheau entered his pool.

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A thermite mixture using iron(III) oxide

01Thermite burns at 2,500 °C — hotter than the surface of most lava flows.
02Water poured on burning thermite causes a steam explosion, making it actively worse to fight.
03U.S. military M14 incendiary grenades use thermite specifically to destroy field artillery beyond enemy recovery.

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01The final level plays in reverse: what looks like rescue, rewound, is a woman fleeing in terror.
02The epilogue's book passages directly name the Manhattan Project and J. Robert Oppenheimer's 'I am become death.'
03Braid was built by one developer, Jonathan Blow, over three years on a personal investment of roughly $200,000.

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01Ray's welcome tape ran for 30 minutes, narrating planned tortures in clinical, methodical detail.
02The trailer contained over $100,000 worth of purpose-built medical and restraint equipment.
03No bodies were ever recovered; the confirmed victim count remains unknown, possibly in the dozens.

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