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The Fable’s crowd and the songs they choose are eclectic, spanning generations and musical tastes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Using the revised position of ancient Qufu, the researchers obtained improved constraints on Earth's rotation during the period spanning the eighth through sixth centuries BCE.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
BMA curator Leslie Cozzi and assistant curator Antoinette Roberts assembled over 200 photographs spanning 185 years—some taken by locally important photographers, some by internationally known artists, and others by anonymous people with cameras.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Starting in 1990 as a transport company, Ravatomanga's Sodiat Group expanded into a sprawling conglomerate spanning automotive distribution, aviation, private security, media, construction, healthcare, real estate, hospitality, tourism and Madagascar's lucrative vanilla trade.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Past that, an old trestle bridge spanning a gorge.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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