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01Anderson wore a scalp necklace into the Centralia raid of September 27, 1864, where his men killed 124 Union soldiers.
02He kept a silk cord knotted with a notch for every man he personally killed; the cord held over 50 knots.
03Shot through the head and killed at age 24, his corpse was propped up, photographed, and displayed in a Richmond, Missouri storefront.

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A column of Bulgarian Comitadjis captured during WWI in Thessaloniki .

01Komitadji cells operated under a strict internal code: betrayal to the Ottomans meant death by the band's own hand.
02Rival Greek, Bulgarian, and Serbian komitadji murdered each other over village loyalty oaths throughout the 1890s–1900s.
03The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization used komitadji terror to provoke Ottoman reprisals and radicalize peasants deliberately.

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01Merckx was punched in the kidney by a fan on Puy-de-Dôme, cracking a bone mid-climb.
02He still finished second overall in 1975, riding the final weeks in documented, measurable pain.
03That punch ended his shot at a record sixth Tour de France title — he never won again.

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Red Bird – watercolour on paper

01Giuliani threatened to cut $7 million in city funding to the Brooklyn Museum over the painting.
02Ofili, a Catholic, said the dung was a reverent material — he used it in nearly every painting.
03A man entered the museum and smeared white paint over the canvas; he was arrested on-site.

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01JACL national secretary Mike Masaoka publicly backed internment compliance in 1942, calling resisters 'disloyal.'
02The JACL formally apologized in 2000 to the Heart Mountain draft resisters it had denounced as cowards 58 years earlier.
03Some JACL leaders provided lists of community members to the FBI before the evacuation orders were issued.

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01Midna sits on wolf-Link's back throughout the game, her weight and posture changing with her mood.
02The Twilight Realm visually desaturates the entire Hyrule palette to grey-gold, a deliberate artistic mourning.
03Midna became one of the most beloved Zelda companions ever written — despite being openly rude to Link for hours.

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01Carthage's inner wall, the Byrsa circuit, reportedly housed 300 elephant stalls and barracks for 20,000 infantry within its structure.
02After the Third Punic War in 146 BCE, Rome demolished every course of the walls and salted the surrounding ground.
03The destruction was so thorough that the precise line of Carthage's outer wall remains disputed among archaeologists today.

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01Sejanus had eliminated Tiberius's son Drusus — likely by poison — to clear his own path to power.
02His children were executed; his daughter, still a virgin, was first assaulted by the executioner because Roman law forbade killing virgins.
03After his fall, the Senate ordered every statue, inscription, and monument bearing his name destroyed — a full damnatio memoriae.

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01Casartelli won gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics; he died in the Tour just three years later.
02He struck a concrete drainage block on the descent; the impact fractured his skull fatally.
03His Motorola teammates rode stage 16 as a memorial procession, refusing to race, letting Lance Armstrong cross alone.

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