northern

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Another set of tablets comes from excavations at Tell Shemshara in 1957, located in what is now northern Iraq.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

Another, the Hurricane fault system, is about 75 miles away, “kind of in the northern corner of Arizona and up into Utah,” according to Rowe.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

On April 1, two migrants died off the coast of Gravelines in northern France while attempting to reach Britain.

From Barron's • May 3, 2026

By the early 1990s, duck populations had exceeded the high of the 1950s; by 2015 almost 50 million waterfowl populated the prairie pothole region of the northern Great Plains.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The roseroot grew low to the ground along the northern fence, its fleshy leaves lining a stem topped with brushlike yellow flowers.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack