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Before the war began at the end of February, more than a hundred ships crossed the strait most days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Peck decided to focus on designing and making handcrafted furniture that could last another hundred years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Two hundred fifty years ago, the “truths” Thomas Jefferson laid out in the Declaration of Independence were not yet “self-evident,” as Elaine Pagels pointed out in a recent essay.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Most travel only a few hundred meters per day, which limits how much of the landscape they can study and makes it harder to gather a wide range of geological data.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Her fur jacket is made of hairs so fine that three hundred thousand are packed into one square inch so that she's always warm and waterproof.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell