circa

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Violinist Philip Setzer offers the origin story, circa 1976: Going to return some library books before heading home from Juilliard for the summer, he ran into fellow violin student Eugene Drucker, who asked him if he’d like to be in a quartet.

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I’m old enough to remember when the King was on tour—my older brother and my father attended one of his shows, circa 1975, at the Springfield Civic Center in Massachusetts.

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The effort to recreate the atmosphere of Vernon circa 2003 is something of a cheat—Tom, Will and Tami all tell their stories in present-day interviews, in the present tense: It’s as if nothing was ever revealed or resolved about the boys in the intervening years, or before the series is even over.

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The authors note: "New analysis of Scandinavia's oldest plank boat brings us a step closer to solving the 100-year-old mystery of the ancient boat's origins. Using cutting-edge scientific methods, researchers have zeroed in on the Baltic Sea Region as the most likely source for the circa 2,400-year-old boat, while also discovering a fingerprint left by an ancient seafarer in the tar used to waterproof the vessel."

From Science Daily

It’s a re-creation of a circa 1794 wallpaper, chosen by curators based on analysis of fragments recovered from the room—a reflection of the current restorationist philosophy to make educated guesses, rather than default to safe, nondescript colors.

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