Brazil, 2013. A referee’s fatal call. A mob’s unspeakable revenge. The pitch became a slaughterhouse and the world has never quite looked at football the same way since.
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The earliest known Cinderella fairy tale appeared in Ancient Egypt during the 1st century BCE in the form of Rhodopis.
Ye Xian is a Chinese tale dating to around AD 850 and is widely regarded as one of the earliest versions of the Cinderella story. It was written by Duan Chengshi and was published by the Tang dynasty in the compilation Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang.
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The German fairy tale of Snow White was first written in the early 19th century. The first edition was published in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm as part of their collection, Grimms’ Fairy Tales and was the fifty-third entry.
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The earliest known story resembling Sleeping Beauty appears in the anonymous French romance Perceforest. It was written in French between 1330 and 1344. Similar themes also appear in the Catalan poem Frayre de Joy e Sor de Paser between 1320 and 1340.
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