historian
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Dr Eleanor Barnett, a food historian at Cardiff University, said the survey results were about "convenience" for people and that takeaways had historically been a "social way of eating".
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
“This amounts to a real right to bail in hundreds of thousands of cases, which previously in California might have led to detention,” said Kellen R. Funk, a legal historian at Columbia Law School.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
“We’re re-emerging in this kind of new bearded age,” said Sean Trainor, a facial-hair historian whose dissertation “Groomed for Power” examined the underpinnings of the golden age of political beards in the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Hillyer, a historian at Lewis & Clark, has been teaching it since 2012 and wrote about the experience in the 2024 book A Wall Is Just a Wall, published by Duke University Press.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Louis F. Burns, the eminent historian of the Osage, observed, “I don’t know of a single Osage family which didn’t lose at least one family member because of the headrights.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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