The trailers show that Eternia was once a vibrant alien-like world with multi-colored forests, massive mountains and fortresses with towering faces carved into their entrances.
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Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
And by the turn of the twenty-first century, most of those tiny bungalows had been replaced by sprawling estates—fortresses for the entertainment elite, where Oscar trophies adorned mantels and wealth guarded from disaster.
More than 140 polling stations were closed on voting day in the country’s two most-populous regions, Amhara and Oromo — both opposition strongholds — over safety concerns sparked by armed groups fighting the government.
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Jenny Vaughan,
semafor.com,
22 June 2026
As a result, Democrats make inroads even on longtime local Republican strongholds.
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Matthew Blinstrubas,
Hartford Courant,
21 June 2026
The ceremony took place near the town of La Hormiga which is surrounded by vast fields of coca bushes, the raw material for cocaine that the Border Commandos export.
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John Otis,
NPR,
21 June 2026
Students who entered college eager to study literature or history sometimes abandoned those fields because classrooms became places of discomfort rather than intellectual growth.
Under their memorandum of understanding, fighting is supposed to cease on all fronts - including Lebanon.
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Caitlin Danaher,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
After eight years in office with a mostly friendly legislature, the Greenwich Democrat has forgotten how to handle the daily challenges of a competitive campaign fought on several fronts, including one within his own party.
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