historical
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The reluctance is felt throughout “Toy Story 5,” as the film tries to find a middle ground between its franchise’s historical love of play and the future’s embrace of screens.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2026
On the positive side, a historical look at the stock market shows that past rate-hike cycles didn’t doom the stock market.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 21, 2026
The new scientific study, by Jorge Avaria-Llautureo of the University of Reading and other researchers, maps the geographic origins of our primate ancestors and the historical climate at those locations.
From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026
America’s artists have always chronicled, celebrated and criticized the nation’s historical events, values, achievements and faults in paintings—abetting our understanding of our history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026
They looked like Glitch costumes, although I had no idea what historical event they might belong to, which wasn’t all that surprising for me.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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