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Since the project’s first album in 2007, he has been unearthing abandoned remnants of music history and rewiring them for our fragmented present.

They lay on the ocean floor, still stacked as they had been in the ship’s hull, and next to them lay the remnants of tin ingots.

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This resolves a long-standing tension in cosmic ray research: while supernova remnants are known to produce cosmic rays, both data and theory suggest they cannot account for the energies seen at and above the "knee."

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When he stumbles upon the hut of a shepherd who flees at the sight of him, he “greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd’s breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk and wine.”

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The remnants of Purdue will become Knoa Pharma, a company owned by a foundation, that will provide opioid use disorder treatments and overdose reversal medicines, "with no obligation to maximize profits," the company said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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