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The solution emerged in the late 1880s through the bitter "War of the Currents," when George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla championed alternating current.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Other major upwelling systems include the Humboldt Current off Peru and the Benguela and Canary Currents along the west coast of Africa.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025

L.A.-based independent journalist and human rights researcher Emily Wilder is on board to document the flotilla effort for news outlet Jewish Currents.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

Aymann Ismail called up Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart to ask him how he’s making sense of all this, as an outspoken critic of Israel.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2023

Rose, in his Biographical Dictionary, records works by him, entitled Antiquities of Ancient Greece; Roman Antiquities dug up at Bath; Observations on the Currents of the Ocean; Intellectual Physics; and also contributions to the Archæologia.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various