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One of the larger villages to be struck by the full force of the flood was Trishuli, where some of the earliest verified footage of the disaster emerged from.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
But scientific naming follows a rule of priority: when the same species has been given more than one scientific name, the earliest valid name takes precedence.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Earlier this month, Jeff Dean, a fixture of Google’s AI efforts since its earliest days, left with three other senior DeepMind researchers to found a startup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Although the film was Tom Cruise’s earliest foray into action-adventure, emerging before 1986’s “Top Gun” buried its cultural legacy, any fresh Hollywood face could have played Scott’s fairy-tale hero.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Even the earliest readers of Origin were aware of the book’s far-reaching implications.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
