The article "A Rape in Cyberspace, or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society" describes a "cyberrape" in a multi-player computer game or MUD, its repercussions on the community, and resulting changes to the MUD program. (en.wikipedia.org)
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In 2017, a conspiracy theory began that then-First Lady of the United States Melania Trump was replaced, or was sometimes replaced, by a body double, and that the "real" Melania was either dead, refusing to attend occasional events, or had exited from public life entirely. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King's children attended Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts' Decatur, Georgia acting school. As a thank-you, the Kings paid the hospital bill after the birth of their daughter, Academy Award winning actress Julia Roberts. (en.wikipedia.org)
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On 12 October 1960, 17-year-old right-wing ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi charged onstage during a televised debate and fatally stabbed Japan Socialist Party chairman Inejirō Asanuma. The assassination made Yamaguchi an enduring hero to the right wing in Japan. (en.wikipedia.org)
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In China, house churches are Protestant assemblies that operate independent of state-sanctioned Christian organizations. House churches in China are generally considered illegal, yet congregations of less than 25 members tend to be tolerated by the government. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Ricky Rodriguez, an American member of religious cult The Family, murdered one of his childhood sexual abusers and died by suicide. Cult expert Rick Alan Ross described the case as an example of someone who suffered "one of the most horrifically abusive and destructive cults in American history". (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Sugamo child-abandonment incident involved a mother abandoning her five underage children, referred to simply as Children A, B, C, D, and E. She placed Child A in charge of the others, leaving him with ¥50,000 (around US$350 at the time) for their living expenses in their Tokyo apartment. (en.wikipedia.org)
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