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...that Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King (Robert F. Kennedy pictured) is believed to have prevented riots from breaking out in Indianapolis?
...that a report by the Judicial Commission of New South Wales almost led to a New South Wales judge being removed from office because of the time delays in giving decisions?
...that in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, when Dorothy Talbye fell into despair with fits of violence in 1638, she was excommunicated from the church, bound and chained to a post, publicly whipped and finally, after murdering her daughter, hanged?

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