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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
Opinion | The Tell-All Book That Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Read (Gift Article)
The “free speech” champion Mark Zuckerberg tries to shut up a critic.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I’ve been visiting the stream a lot at the back of the temple property. Here is a video I am calling “visions through winters veil.”
March 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The decision not to use an interpreter and the power imbalance between the parties, as well as Zelensky’s “warrior energy” due to his position as a wartime leader contributed to the meeting boiling over in such a dramatic way, body language experts said.
Body-language experts break down the dramatic Trump-Zelensky meeting
The row between Trump and Zelensky was heightened by the lack of an interpreter, the power imbalance, and the men’s TV backgrounds, body-language experts say.
wapo.st
March 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The two prefectures are leaning on spooky folklore to draw more travelers.
Shimane and Tottori to bewitch tourists with supernatural charms
What do ‘tengu’ demons, long-necked ‘rokurobi’ monsters and ghost stories have in common? They’re the core of a tourism push for Shimane and Tottori prefectures.
www.japantimes.co.jp
February 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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The Creator of Wallace and Gromit Breathes Life Into a Cast of Clay (Gift Article)
Nick Park’s latest film in the stop-motion series is up for multiple awards at the BAFTAs and the Oscars.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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February 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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ICYMI: The pups from Team Fluff weren't the only winners. See freeze-frame highlights from the 21st edition of the Puppy Bowl.
See Spot run: Photos from a historic Puppy Bowl
The pups from Team Fluff weren't the only winners. See freeze-frame highlights from the 21st edition of the Puppy Bowl.
www.npr.org
February 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Thousands of trees planted in Devon to start creation of Celtic rainforest:
"In decades to come, these trees – oak, rowan, alder, hazel, birch, willow and holly – will form a temperate rainforest"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of trees planted in Devon to start creation of Celtic rainforest
More than 2,500 native trees have been planted to form a temperate rainforest in decades to come
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Opinion | Fast Times at West Wing High (Gift Article)
Tech tycoons joining political big shots equals an ego explosion.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces after years of being barred from a segregated military, died on Jan. 8. She was 104.
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier
After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Morgan Llwyd's Llyfr y Tri Aderyn, ‘Book of the Three Birds’.
Morgan Llwyd was a puritan who also wrote astrological poems and had a reputation for being a magician.
nation.cymru/culture/yr-h...
Yr Hen Iaith fifty seven: Three birds and two worlds: Morgan Llwyd
We continue the history of Welsh literature to accompany the second series of podcasts in which Jerry Hunter guides fellow academic Richard Wyn Jones through the centuries. This accompanies episode 57...
nation.cymru
January 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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First ladies have often made statements through what they wore on Inauguration Day and to the inaugural balls. Take a look: nyti.ms/4h14RfI
January 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Genetic testing is recommended for those with personal and family histories of several types of cancer — including pancreatic and breast cancer.

Here's what to know.
What to know about genetic testing for cancer, and when to request it
Genetic testing is recommended for those with personal and family histories of several types of cancer — including pancreatic and breast cancer.
trib.al
January 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM