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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

One hundred firefighter personnel were assigned to the Bain fire.

From Los Angeles Times • 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

Audlem Charity Shop, in Cheshire, used to open Monday to Saturday and would take a few hundred pounds in a week.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

As the crowd dispersed into the streets of what I was almost positive now was Boston, Massachusetts, in seventeen hundred and something or other, they grew quieter.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin