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The Nazca Lines are a group of geoglyphs etched into the desert sands that date back to between 500 BC and 500 AD.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
In recent days, lawyers for both sides have gone back and forth to negotiate a start date for a trial that is expected to last weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
He called Brand New Day his favourite film of Holland's tenure, praising him for the "most mature performance" as the character to date.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Recipe development has trained me to distrust a dish that works on the first try; it is like meeting someone wonderful on a first date and spending the evening scanning for red flags.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Do you ever ask yourself why you only date Black men?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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The earliest evidence of these structures, often used to mark property boundaries and contain livestock, dates back 5,000 years.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The concept dates back to 1984, when French researcher Marie Françoise Rolland-Cachera and her colleagues described "adiposity rebound" in a paper published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
The five-year licenses run separately for each show, with start dates that vary based on territory and the expiration of existing streaming deals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Federal judges have found that the government filed statements generated by artificial intelligence that referenced nonexistent case law, wrote briefs that ignored facts and filed declarations with inaccurate dates, the ProPublica review shows.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Names, dates; some of it in what looks like code.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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With their dated decor, hotel-like hallways, overhead ceiling tiles and abandoned office spaces, the Backrooms resemble the overlooked non-places of modern life – spaces many people recognize but rarely notice.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Kristine Garroway, a longtime member with an archeological background, told The Times last year that the previous mural dated to the 1920s, although its true origin remains unknown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The Wall Street Journal and its reporters received grand jury subpoenas dated March 4 that sought information related to a February article about Pentagon concerns regarding an extended military campaign against Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In my brother’s case, when you look inside the box, everything was dated prior to COVID.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The oldest polyphonic song known is the Medieval English song “Sumer Is Icumen In” dated from the mid-13th century.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The school joined a long list of efforts by the country’s wealthiest, dating back to Andrew Carnegie, to put their stamp on the American classroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
As Marisa Kabas reported this week in her newsletter the Handbasket, in the winter of 2019, Moraff was dating a woman in Pittsburgh he’d met through an app.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
“It took so long because we’re in Watts,” she said, noting that the neighborhood has faced decades of disinvestment dating back to the 1965 Watts uprising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Once the charcoal had been confirmed, researchers received exceptional authorization to remove extremely small samples for carbon-14 dating.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
“They’ve been dating for six years,” Juliet says.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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