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This Hall of Fame player is the only golfer in modern Olympic history to win a complete set of medals — gold, silver and bronze — across three different Olympic Games.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Last month, she was told by the Home Office there were "reasonable grounds" to believe she had been a victim of modern slavery and trafficking and that it would investigate her case further.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
He added that because modern auto plants consume parts as soon as they arrive, “production issues will arise rather quickly.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
The diets were designed to reflect common patterns of fat consumption in the modern American diet.
From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026
How could the people who owned such rich farms, such beautiful furniture and gardens, modern bathrooms, and electricity to run refrigerators have ever needed to come take over the Soviet Union’s peasant huts?
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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