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Osman, the writer of the best-selling Thursday Murder Club novels and former host of House of Games and Pointless, was made an OBE for services to literature and broadcasting.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
Pink katydids have been recorded in scientific literature since 1878, but they have usually been viewed as rare and disadvantageous mutations.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2026
Messrs. Curtin and Burgess implicate an entire influential field of literature projecting future climate damages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
The group mostly reads contemporary literature, but once a year, they tackle a classic — or “a downer,” as they’ve come to call them.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
We now know this, but no one in the sixteenth century realized it, and it has caused a great deal of confusion in the historical literature.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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