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Homer’s trip to the land of the dead is crowded with ghosts from Odysseus’ past and Greek legend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Umbu Ana allows his "ata" to earn a little money as a motorcycle taxi driver and to grow his own food on a small plot of land.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Environmental and park advocates argued for the reservation system, saying that it not only protected the wildlife and land, but also that it was popular among guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Agencies involved might typically include Forestry and Land Scotland, Scottish government agency NatureScot, and private owners or land managers in the area under threat.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
A violent torrent of rain came down on the land.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Companies talk a lot about AI, but just a handful have produced an impact that lands on the financial statement.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
The voice growling over it belongs to Dana White, the president and CEO of the UFC, who does donuts in a blacked-out performance truck while the slogan lands.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
President Trump recently rescinded executive orders that restricted off-roading on federal public lands, but other rules remain on place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
For more than a century, neuroscientists have studied the human brain much as early cartographers mapped unknown lands: piecing together a vast landscape from scattered observations.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
They were all from his gentlemen’s club or from various banks, except for one thin, stained envelope with no return address but which bore many colorful postmarks and exotic stamps from distant lands.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
The pushback against “party and dance” landed because it sounded like the whole plan.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
In May 2024, professional eventer Georgie Campbell died after her horse fell and landed on her at Bicton International Horse Trials in Devon.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
That experience motivated Quadir to switch up her career plan, and she soon landed a job as an analyst at a healthcare-focused hedge fund in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
In 1951, Marcus landed at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn as an assistant professor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
She had the kind of face that wouldn’t blink if a spaceship landed in front of her and a herd of chickens flew out the door.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
“And as he said, as we feel, it’s the pitching and the torque of landing on that leg that kind of gets it upset.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
They are also more reliant on their mobile devices to navigate airports, order food and drinks onboard, and book taxis after landing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
SpaceX will aspire the next time around to execute a launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn and landing burn of the booster offshore without hiccups.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
The embarrassing stories kept landing, and the man in charge of the Pentagon now needs the Justice Department’s help to plug a hole he cannot plug alone.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
I grabbed it and leaped, landing squarely on the moving train as it rolled down the tracks bound for Washington and left the menacing city of Baltimore behind.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
