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The judge said that, in weighing the sentence, he considered Iza’s history and characteristics, including childhood displacement from Iraq, separation from his parents, neglect, poverty, physical abuse and prolonged social isolation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
"If you go through Lincoln's history, Keith's name is going to be one of the biggest when it comes to what he did."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Even more troubling: They went 0-for-12 on third downs, their most attempts without a conversion in recorded franchise history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
But the film merely gestures to its own unfortunate place in history, without ever cementing it as a tragedy.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
“No idea. But it’s probably because you and I are the worst partners in the history of ever.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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The institute’s staff arranged small conferences to walk the elders through the personal histories of the refugees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In late August, Greece and Israel signed one of the largest defence export deals in both countries' histories.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Flash fiction, sweeping histories and bold memoirs — discover the highly anticipated fiction and nonfiction our book reviewers are dipping into this autumn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Over the years, I have come to understand that we learn our parents’ histories slowly, often in fragments, and sometimes only in retrospect.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
They remembered their histories with their voices and bodies, repeating them over and over until the stories became part of them, and the legends were as real as their own tongues and lungs and hearts.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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