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After being sold multiple times across state lines, her last owner, a Mississippi plantation owner named Robert Smith moved West to begin a Mormon community in Utah.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
But that being said, you have to keep in mind that we are getting this information secondhand, it’s a juror note that’s being interpreted and characterized by Reddington.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Queen visited a library rebuilt after being destroyed in a riot, telling the children she met that "you can never have too many books".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
But not every hybrid being mixes animal with human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The picture that Hawes makes is probably the very first of doctors being doctors instead of doctors posing for portraits.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
No longer content to coexist with natural-born beings or seeking to be more lifelike, synthetic humanoids lord over what’s left of humanity.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
There’s nothing more riveting on stage than the truth, and here we have human beings in all their flagrant, unadorned and seemingly irreconcilable complications.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"I believe that only then will we be able to begin to heal and move forward -- not as adversaries, but as human beings and as peoples equal in dignity."
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Human beings have, throughout history, opportunistically eaten almost any edible thing that they could get their hands on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
For them, human beings are barely visible to the naked eye.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
