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The TV production company Charlie Parsons Creative contributed £50,000 and the think tank ThinkLabour, formerly known as Labour Together, provided £22,186.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Bernstein formerly was on the board at EquiTrust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
"In the naïve quark model, there are three quarks inside a proton, but nothing else," said Tommy Tsang, formerly a postdoc at Kent State University, now at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
When Evan, formerly known as Heeseung, announced he was leaving the K-pop group Enhypen, he made global headlines and shocked the K-pop community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Adams suspected that Hamilton, whom he had formerly distrusted and now utterly loathed, saw himself as an American Napoleon, poised to declare martial law and present himself as the available savior.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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