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Because of this more scholarly orientation, his most extreme ideas sound, at first glance, a little wonky.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
Janson, the author of the “History of Art” textbook, first published in 1962, implied that the regionalist painter was unworthy of scholarly attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
“State law limits access to electoral, governmental, scholarly, journalistic, and political purposes, and misuse is a crime — the same protection every voter receives.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
One of the main research questions associated with our fieldwork focuses on the question of tomb placement and tomb reuse – for which the newly discovered tomb carries important scholarly significance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The most pedantic difficulty—and the one that has undoubtedly spilled the most scholarly ink—is the question of which version of the stade Eratosthenes used in his work.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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