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“At the time, I was the first commissioner in the agency’s 37-year history to speak fluent Russian, the language of the world’s largest Arctic nation.”
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
This exemplary drama of intrigue and heartbreak closes with “a gentle scene, on an island with a history of violence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
He said there’s been few quarterbacks in school history with Cadet’s talent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Palmer finished as the season's top scorer with 244 points and was handed the biggest price rise in FPL history of £5.5m, meaning he cost £10.5m at the start of the 2024-25 campaign.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Major Puff insisted that a complete history of all the puffin wars would fit in perfectly.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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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
The researchers also had limited information about participants' H. pylori status and family histories of gastric cancer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Bluecore Energy got its start in January when Asante quit his job at the electric boat company Arc and gathered a team of employees with histories at SpaceX, Rivian, Northrop Grumman and the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
One of the most melancholy cultural histories is that of the short-lived Russian Renaissance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Jefferson owned several copies of English histories that reprinted the Rumbold speech.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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