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Compare this to the reality of what was going on for Anne circa the early 1970s.
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Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2019
The curator of the Pompidou exhibition, Didier Ottinger, has situated the paintings of Bacon in the context of a Reader’s Digest assortment of texts, a general-interest, user-friendly survey of Big Thoughts 101, circa 1985.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
Juggling has a long and glorious history dating back to ancient Egypt; there are hieroglyphics circa 1994 and 1781 BCE that historians consider to be the earliest historical record of juggling.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2020
Cuckoo clock, circa 1950 Q. My grandmother gave me this clock more than 30 years ago.
—oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2020
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Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2019
The curator of the Pompidou exhibition, Didier Ottinger, has situated the paintings of Bacon in the context of a Reader’s Digest assortment of texts, a general-interest, user-friendly survey of Big Thoughts 101, circa 1985.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
Juggling has a long and glorious history dating back to ancient Egypt; there are hieroglyphics circa 1994 and 1781 BCE that historians consider to be the earliest historical record of juggling.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2020
Cuckoo clock, circa 1950 Q. My grandmother gave me this clock more than 30 years ago.
—oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2020
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The Augustinian house was across St. Peter’s Square from the Vatican, and it was filled with men from around the world.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
1 July 2025
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This leaves around £300M that will need to be sought in private investment now that Cain has dropped out.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
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Suge Knight alleged that the rapper had pleaded with mom Afeni Shakur about ending his life, and Knight claims that Afeni gave him pills to assist in expediting that process.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
1 July 2025
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The first half of 2025 shattered every assumption about scaling laws and compute requirements.—
Steven Wolfe Pereira,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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