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Some of their earliest viral videos in the mid-2010s followed the restoration of a Big Bud tractor—a hulking machine with a cult following among tractor enthusiasts.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Speaking on Friday, Durkan said work starting at the site in 2028 at the earliest was "indicative of a lack of urgency".

From BBC • May 29, 2026

But that means the waterway—which normally carries around 20% of the world’s oil traffic—is unlikely to be fully open before July at the earliest.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Publicly, though, Biden’s principal stated rationale for moving the state up was to increase racial diversity in the earliest voting states and reward Black voters for their significance in the Democratic Party coalition.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

This philosophy—the interchangeability of music, math, and nature—led to the earliest Pythagorean model of the planets.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife