News and weather reports record that smoke blotted out the Sun on one out of every three days, and sometimes sunlight never pierced the darkness.
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Robert Wyss,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
Urban skyglow has robbed many of us of our night skies and the vast majority of the population of the United States now lives in regions where the stars are mostly blotted out by excessive lighting.
Pahlavi ruled from 1941 to 1979, when the Islamic Revolution ousted him amid allegations of repression and accusations that the pro-Western longtime ruler had plundered his nation’s treasury.
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Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Abroad, America’s élite soldiers killed and plundered.
In 1963, a fire ravaged the Hotel Del Mar and forced its permanent closure.
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Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
The area however had not been in use since 1995, when Hurricane Luis ravaged Mullet Bay, and no substantial repairs or development had been done since then, the complaint says.
Documents unearthed in Broward County records show the LLC took out a short-term balloon mortgage in 2017 for an unspecified amount rather than seek aconventional bank loan.
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Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
His father took out $250,000 in loans 18 years ago when the store first opened — and the buildout costs for a new space would easily surpass that.
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