The wave machine someone invented to simulate the oceans of Pandora risks crushing the actors to death under eight pounds of steel?
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
7 Nov. 2025
Putnam raised the example of how, during the previous upswing, organizations like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were invented just a few years apart, because people recognized that young people needed mentors.
In the 19th century, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace devised his own theory of evolution, independent of Charles Darwin, while visiting the region to research his book, The Malay Archipelago.
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Gisela Williams,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Jan. 2026
And to that end, the Islamic Republic may have devised a failsafe for itself against popular anger.
Freckles, known for his white coat sprinkled with black spots, was hatched at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2006 and had been at the San Francisco Zoo for most of his life.
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Tim Fang,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
After the eggs hatched, males left the nest site and soon reappeared in the observation area for the next reproductive cycle.
In exchange for not being charged with a DUI, the family’s lawyer concocted a deal in which Skakel was sent to the controversial Élan School in Maine in an effort to correct his unruly behavior.
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Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
7 Dec. 2025
Greg Swartz of Bleacher Report concocted this trade idea that sees the Lakers land and shore up both their frontcourt and backcourt, the Dallas Mavericks duo of former All-Star Klay Thompson and Daniel Gafford.
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