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Gillespie Sells, the only member of the band not originally from Sussex, said he spent many of his teenage years in the county after meeting his future bandmates at the Brit School.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Ms. Browne’s magnificent life of the naturalist, originally published in two volumes in 1995 and 2002, is now available in a shortened and updated version.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Washington says the base, which was originally built partly with US funding, could give Beijing a strategic position near the South China Sea.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Statewide voters originally adopted the constitutional spending limit during an antitax wave in the late 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
But when it was put into practice, particularly when it was placed in the hands of corrupt leaders, it became a much different system from that which was originally espoused.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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