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It was a "further device by which funds could be paid into the club in a manner that concealed their true origin".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Gizmo’s origin story was explored more recently in the HBO Max animated series, “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Its distant origin has raised one of the monument's most intriguing questions: how did such an enormous stone travel so far?
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
When a cancer signal is detected, Galleri is designed to predict the cancer signal origin with high accuracy to help guide diagnostic evaluation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
A multicultural interpretation of US history emphasizes only the “contributions” of groups that were ignored in the dominant origin myth, including Indigenous peoples, women, African Americans, and immigrants.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Germany’s annual per capita consumption of traditional beer has fallen about 40% since 1990 to 77 liters now — an alarming development for an industry whose origins reach back to the Middle Ages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
These events, called fast X-ray transients, have several possible origins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
An amateur fossil hunter's discovery of a 200-million-year-old fish jawbone has helped solve two centuries of "confusion" over the origins of fossils across Europe, palaeontologists say.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Its mission, said former assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Remington Kellogg that year, was to “awaken” a “clear understanding of the inspiring story of the United States — its origins, struggles, development, traditions, strength.”
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Long before Descartes we can find references to laws of nature in a scientific context, and scholars have struggled to disentangle the origins of the concept.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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