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That was under the management of Keith Alexander, a man who would cement his place in the club's history, bringing it out of the ashes of administration to back-to-back play-off campaigns in League Two.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

And even though his home country doesn’t have a long history of producing the world’s pre-eminent chess minds, there has never been a better time to be a competitive chess player from Uzbekistan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

But Kasamis takes inspiration from history: He read Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” in high school.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Colbert succeeded David Letterman, who was the original host of the “The Late Show” when it launched in 1993 and became the first successful late night show in CBS’s history.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

Mullineaux would later tell a Senate committee that “the lateral blast extended about three times farther than any such blast recorded by the geologic history of the volcano.”

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone