historic
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Mullin said the agency suffered a blow to morale because of the historic 76-day shutdown of ICE and CBP after a congressional stalemate over funding.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
The Roaring ’20s: Driven by easy credit and an industrial build-out of new technologies like the radio and the telephone, this historic bubble peaked on Sept. 3, 1929.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
“A major landmark and historic treasure was being treated like an extreme fixer-upper on HGTV’s ‘Property Brothers,’” she writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
In their defence, Milan's city council said the project - at the city's historic 19th-Century Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II arcade - had not been completed.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
And of all the remarkable events that occurred in 1919, one historic aeronautic achievement in particular held the attention of people across the country.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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