For me, folklore started right back at school, when our junior headmaster used to sit and tell us tall colorful tales, oral Cumbrian legends and ghost stories, which could be augmented and added to in the telling.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
Set on Tau Ceti IV after the events of the original games (last seen 30 years ago), the online extraction shooter tasks players with retrieving valuable artifacts, data, and resources from a lost colony as Runners, augmented humans with cybernetic bodies.
Former detainees and human rights organizations have documented systematic torture and severe abuses inside the facility, including beatings, electric shocks, suspension by limbs, prolonged stress positions and other degrading treatment.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
Freezing temperatures have returned to North Texas, but this visit shouldn’t be as prolonged as the recent winter storm.
Global capability centers and captives, particularly in India and other low-cost locations, have expanded rapidly.
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Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
In recent years, the festival has expanded its offerings to attendees, including beers from outside the country, non-alcoholic beers, ciders and even some hard liquors.
The weather pattern across the United States has become increasingly amplified, with surges of arctic air plunging south through the central Plains and into the eastern third of the country.
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Mary Wasson,
Austin American Statesman,
31 Jan. 2026
Holmes’ account has, naturally, amplified such takes.
Enabled by revolutionary advances in communications, computers, and shipping, multinational firms dramatically reduced their costs and enlarged their markets by developing global supply and distribution chains.
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Walter Russell Mead,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2026
The upstairs kitchen, bathroom, and floors underwent a full renovation; Parlá also enlarged the original skylights.
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