northern

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Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Nedoune, a Tuareg herder in his fifties, said he was fetching water two years ago in the northern Timbuktu region when a convoy spotted him.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Evacuation warnings stretched west into northern Thousand Oaks.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

"You don't see working-class or northern voices represented well in the national media and that creates a deficit," she said.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

It looks like the northern lights up there, if the lights were red, orange, and purple rather than green and blue.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer