While both Iowa and Indiana claim bragging rights for inventing the sandwich, the exact origin remains as delightfully fuzzy as a diner countertop debate.
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Susan Stapleton,
Des Moines Register,
4 Mar. 2026
Cole Winn, a one-time failed starter who is re-inventing his life as a reliever, cruises through the sixth.
That means the public officials designing the dredging project have a stark choice to make, scientists say.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Mar. 2026
After designing Bessette-Kennedy’s dress, Rodriguez launched his own label and a fragrance line, and has continued to create designs that are woven into the fabric of American history — Michelle Obama wore his dress on election night in 2008.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
Every medal is double-sided and made using the craft of stamping.
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Micaela English,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Feb. 2026
From linework authoring and animation to novel brushing and stamping methods, this toolset facilitates the wide range of unique art styles and painterly effects seen across DreamWorks Animation films while providing artistic control at every stage of production.
Among the iconic polymath’s many (many) achievements, the 15th century thinker is famous for devising an angled contraption to help his experiments exploring friction physics.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
25 Feb. 2026
Health ministry officials and the ministry of trade are also devising tax breaks to incentivize local manufacturing, said Modise.
Buss trusted his instincts and went for it, the enlistment of Riley fashioning a culture that remained strong until the death of Buss in 2013.
—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
If fashioning a topiary from scratch, use a template to indicate where cuts will be needed and, starting from the top, trim gradually and in small amounts.
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Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Feb. 2026
Japanese photographer Kazushige Horiguchi had to exercise extreme patience to capture the clownfish image, which shows the eggs hatching as the parent watches and won the Behavior category.
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Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
27 Feb. 2026
Maria Loconsole, a comparative psychologist at the University of Padua in Italy, and her colleagues decided to investigate the bouba-kiki effect in baby chicks because the birds could be tested almost immediately after hatching, before their brain would be influenced by exposure to the world.
The result revealed a surprising pattern—superconductivity appeared and strengthened over a specific range of conditions, forming a curved region known as a superconducting dome.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Mar. 2026
Gandhi said forming an advisory committee would not necessarily prevent school closures.
As Gyllenhaal begins concocting her third directorial feature, could Curtis be part of the picture?
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Antonio Ferme,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
Gyllenhaal, who also wrote her film, has corrected the imbalance, refashioning the story from the Bride’s perspective and concocting a protagonist of unfiltered feminist fury.
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