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James Otis, a prominent Patriot from Massachusetts, asserted in 1764 that the “colonists are by the law of nature free born, as indeed all men are, white or black.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Pulte the grandson hasn’t donated to any prominent Fellowship candidates.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
Labelled as planet X, prominent astronomers had put it forward as an explanation for Uranus’s orbit, which drifts from the path of orbital motion that physics would expect it to follow.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
The issue has become more prominent as online-dependent "live-service" games have grown across the industry.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Kepler was not the only prominent scientist who sliced objects infinitely thin.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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