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The great stories of exploration and trade and imperial rivalry are here, from the Phoenician sailors who plied the ancient Mediterranean to the 17th-century Dutch who traded in the East Indies.

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Only around a third of Angus’s 404 owners have plied their tokenized shares of the animal into the artists’ online Remorse Portal, signifying their wish to save his life.

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The biggest of those acquisitions was center Tyler Linderbaum—who used to ply his trade as a Baltimore Raven.

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Navy could escort ships through the strait, and he has ordered an arm of the federal government to offer insurance to shipping lines plying those waters.

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Iran has neither openly targeted energy facilities across the Middle East nor have they openly targeted oil tankers plying the region, they say.

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