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"We're easily a good four weeks ahead of where things were maybe 30 or 40 years ago," the group's spokesman Ernst Buescher told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The last time a hurricane made landfall on Hawaii's Big Island was 155 years ago, according to the Associated Press news agency.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Mosasaurs were large marine reptiles that inhabited oceans around the world during the Late Cretaceous, approximately 98 to 66 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Role Models” actor Seann William Scott is selling his longtime Malibu estate after an extensive renovation and listed it for more than four times the price he purchased it for 22 years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“I studied here in the City of Scholars, years ago, and she was famous. Every day she flies to the Gem Palace, the largest jeweler’s in the city.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
