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Recent Examples of surfedKahanamoku first surfed Corona del Mar in 1914, before the surf break was destroyed by jetties in the ’30s, and became friends with the Vultee family, which had a home on the bluffs.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
The new San Diego street circuit at Naval Base Coronado, laser-scanned for the main iRacing sim, is widely expected to carry over to the console game.
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Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Georgia's current voting machines print a paper ballot containing both a human-readable summary of a voter's selections and a QR code that is ultimately scanned and counted by election equipment.
Anyone familiar with the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic voter-registration numbers or who perused some of the better polls before the primary would not be the slightest bit surprised by this result.
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The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
9 June 2026
Just around the corner from the rally on Tajrish Square, in a tranquil park near the Cinema Museum of Iran, locals perused an open-air book stall and sipped tea, while couples strolled hand in hand.
The rough texture of the leaves is a plus because the plant is rarely browsed by deer or eaten by rabbits.
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Lauren David,
Southern Living,
4 June 2026
Makeup categories followed farther inside, while Korean snacks, supplements and wellness products were positioned toward the back — which many shoppers browsed while waiting in the checkout line.
While Europeans at Ellis Island did face medical inspections and some were even detained, Asians and Pacific Islanders at Angel Island were especially not welcomed; because of anti-Chinese exclusion laws, they instead were inspected, interrogated and detained in prison-like conditions.
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Matt Alderton,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
Under current federal rules, many bridges must be inspected in, at most, 24-month intervals.