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David Stuttard puts this episode to good effect in “Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens,” the third of his popular, though judiciously researched, histories of Athens during the fifth century B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

This so-called super El Nino, caused by the cyclical warming of waters along the equatorial Pacific, could be the strongest of the century to affect Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Every winner this century except Auroras Encore had two or fewer falls in their career prior to the race.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Instead of fleeing north, as thousands of enslaved African-Americans would do in the 19th century, he headed southwest toward North Carolina.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

On that distant, sunny summer afternoon, Mr. Hobbes had already been dead for nearly a century.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood