northern

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The findings indicate this lost landscape may have served as a welcoming refuge for plants, animals, and possibly humans long before forests became common across Britain and northern Europe.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

His father was an explosives engineer for a mining company in a little-known part of northern Spain, his mother worked in a department store.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

NiSource secured a long-term energy agreement with an Alphabet subsidiary to power a large data center in northern Indiana.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

A former CIA officer who flipped a swing House district in northern Virginia twice, Spanberger has now been governor of the commonwealth for roughly four months.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

A sectional understanding had emerged whereby northern states had agreed not to tamper with the property rights of southern states.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis