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The superfast 140-mile rail line between London and Birmingham will cost up to $971 million a mile by the time it’s fully open—currently estimated for 2040 at the earliest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Researchers believe those lower estimates were influenced by the widespread population losses caused by disease, frontier violence, and systemic oppression before the earliest Australian censuses were conducted.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
"They really do go straight to surgery only for the earliest stage tumors, which makes me think this was a very early stage tumor, and has a quite good prognosis."
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Invictibellatrix, meaning "unconquered female warrior", is one of the smallest and earliest of the group to be found, living in the Early Cretaceous period about 120 million years ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The earliest repeating rifles appeared during the American Civil War.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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