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Other recent competitions had taken the family to Florida, Mississippi and Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
England produced one of their best performances in recent times as they thumped Croatia 7-0 in Rijeka.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Several were referenced in a recent city staff report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The Pentagon’s most recent publicly released data, from 2019, found roughly 70% of active-duty personnel identified as Christian.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
He taught Ellsberg to constantly scan the barbed wire fences along the road, looking for a shiny edge that hadn’t had time to rust, the telltale sign of a recent slice.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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