historical
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These included radiocarbon dating, unusual patterns recorded in tree rings, and historical records describing ruptures that broke the ground surface.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
"Samuel occupies an important place in the historical narrative both in Bulgaria and in North Macedonia," Dimitar Bechev, a researcher at the Carnegie Europe think tank, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
That 48-basis-point move isn’t enormous by historical standards, but the speed of the widening is what caught my attention.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
They acknowledge that earnings risks remain positively skewed as it prepares to change CEO, but observe that the stock is already trading at elevated historical multiples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Perhaps because we are still living their legacy, we have yet to reach a genuinely historical perspective on the revolutionary generation.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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