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Historians say Mr Levi's artefacts could also help throw light on the larger Jewish community in India.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

Investors awaited factory production data from the euro zone at 0800 GMT that could throw light on the pace of economic growth.

From Reuters • Aug. 1, 2022

“These manuscripts can throw light on part of Africa’s past.”

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Those books helped throw light on the so-called Salt Lake City scandal involving allegations of bribes used by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee to win the 2002 Winter Olympics.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

The following letters from Lincoln throw light on his attitude toward a compromise at a somewhat earlier stage: Private and Confidential Springfield, Ill., December 10, 1860.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace




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