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In total, nearly a hundred refuge sites have been mapped out and incorporated into operational evacuation plans designed to quickly guide people to safe places.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Pratt spent most of his two hours at the Hyde Park block party talking and posing for photos with the hundred or so people who showed up.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

A few basins for handwashing have been set up near the blue-painted buildings of the hospital, where around a hundred suspected Ebola patients are already being cared for, according to an official.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Clouds of ptarmigan rise like giant white snowflakes into a bright sun in front of the dogs —sometimes two, three hundred of them.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen