The text consists of 10 treatises on architecture, engineering and urban planning, and is the oldest surviving work written on the subject.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
The collection, now over 40,000 volumes, includes Greek and Arabic manuscripts, early cartographic works and rare scientific treatises gathered from across the Iberian world.
Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The New Republic, and more.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
For this year’s installment, Vogue partnered with the publisher 831 Stories on a collection of essays and excerpts celebrating the art of romantic fiction.
The active component in milk thistle seeds, silymarin, has been shown in some studies to increase glutathione levels naturally up to 35-50% by protecting liver cells and supporting their function.
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Brianna Peters,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2026
California has prohibited new drilling within 3,200 feet of these sensitive sites based on studies of the health harms of pollutants coming from oil and gas activity.
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Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
The Evanston school’s performance and theater departments had a heritage of exploring non-dramatic texts like novels and narrative poems, with scholar-artists like Robert Breen and Frank Galati turning them into theater.
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Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
Samizdat originally published literary texts, which, under censorship, had been altered.
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Jennifer Lutz,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
Arlington Heights would have meant boom times on the I-90 corridor, which has its tracts of vacant land, and helped both Metra and O’Hare International Airport.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
There’s typically more pressure on big, obvious tracts of national forest.
By the mid-1960s, the school, located in the center of Harlem, was among the few schools in the United States to publish a yearbook directly engaged with the civil rights and Black Power discourses of the era.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Nov. 2025
By analyzing discourses on development squarely within Native American studies, Yazzie situates capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism into the politics of nation-building.
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