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One of the larger villages to be struck by the full force of the flood was Trishuli, where some of the earliest verified footage of the disaster emerged from.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
One of the study's key conclusions is that current PTA measurements can place limits on how common the earliest seeds of supermassive black holes could have been.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
One of the earliest games Golesh remembers watching was an early 1990s Iron Bowl between his new employer and Alabama, one of the fiercest rivalries in football.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Directed by Henry Winkler and co-starring Lee Majors as Mountain Dan, it may be one of the earliest precursors to the Hallmark holiday-style movies.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Here, then, we seem to be on the verge of that fusion of human and animal identity that distinguishes the earliest historical religions of Egypt and Mesopotamia.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
