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Philip surveyed three streets on behalf of the England Data Unit, all within a few minutes' walk of Covent Garden, on a weekday evening.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Dust Bowl troubadour Woody Guthrie, who’d be moving to California in a few years, wrote a lament to “Los Angeles New Year’s Flood.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Police say its database, searchable with a few keystrokes, has sped up arrests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The president is a pop-culture fanatic; he blasts Broadway showtunes at his rallies and was tweetstorming about Kristen Stewart a few years before becoming the leader of the free world.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
I dabble with a few other instruments: viola, violin, and a little piano.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
