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Recent Examples of bridgesMilwaukee's older bridges, though, are in better shape than the average Wisconsin bridge built the same decade, the report says.—Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
While experts aren’t sure exactly when the tomatoes arrived on the younger islands, the plant’s evolution had to have happened within the last half million years, since that’s around the time the youngest islands first emerged, Jozwiak said.
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Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
The country, vulnerable to natural disasters and any significant rainfall, has now had more than a week of rain and is expected to see more when Melissa, which battered Cuba as well on Wednesday, moves into the southern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands.
This World Cup, held on home soil, represents both a golden opportunity and a defining moment for Mexican football.
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Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
The team excavated several key places on the site, studied cores of soil and conducted an additional LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, survey of the area.
When two parties are aware of a major issue that diminishes an asset and do not inform the third party of that asset, that’s strong grounds for a lawsuit.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
The neighborhood’s first hotel, Bay View Inn, once sat on the park’s grounds, but today visitors will find plenty of opportunities for recreation across its nine acres, and a boardwalk that overlooks Biscayne Bay.
North Country National Scenic Trail spans eight states, including more than 1,100 miles in Michigan through urban and rural areas in the upper and lower peninsulas.
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Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
24 Oct. 2025
On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though the Earth has blown holes in itself.
Even leaving these facts aside, neither the doctrinaire socialism nor militant Islam have ever improved any place on earth, and New York City will not be the first.
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