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Java’s stand predated by two years the uprising over similar anti-LGBTQ+ police harassment at the Stonewall Inn in New York, and has never received the same attention.

While the Israeli government might suggest that this is nature reclaiming old habitat, much of this process is unnatural and predates the ongoing war in Gaza.

The new nematode fossils predate those Cambrian creatures by about 15 million years, says Hughes, a graduate student at Harvard University.

We understood each other perfectly - with a gestural language that obviously predates human speech.”

I think my love of being a funny actor predates my love of comedy, but that’s what brought me to stand-up.