The women’s orchestra, separated from their fellow inmates in a special block, was required by their Nazi overseers to play jaunty marches every morning and evening so that other female prisoners kept in step as they were sent to work outside the camp.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
The Tamsui River is a major waterway and estuary in northern Taiwan that flows into the Taiwan Strait, the channel separating Taiwan from mainland China.
But before long his hearing begins to disappear, leading him down a panicked trail of denial, anger and desperation.
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Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Normally that motion disappears without a trace, but a growing field of research aims to capture it and turn it into electricity for sensors, wearable devices and other small electronics.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
Following its defeat by Communist Party forces in the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Nationalist movement, led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled to the island in 1949 as a government in exile.
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Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
In six months, the site has grown from 600 people fleeing gang attacks in nearby Delmas 30 to 5,000 people from all over the capital, sheltering in packed government offices and makeshift shacks.
After a pause, the composition takes on a searching quality, as the melody travels from one instrument to the next, including a compelling viola solo performed by principal viola Maiya Papach, eventually fading out to nothing, leaving the audience suspended in uneasy quiet.
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Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
The long-standing expectation was that these resonance signals would fade and become negligible as the momentum transfer increased.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
Some of the summer heat has melted away, with the golden days around 75F.
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Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
On their simulated planet, clouds released rain that froze into icebergs that melted and flowed down rivers, soaking soil and evaporating to rejoin the atmosphere.
Gilchrist replies, his voice brightening the way an ancient sun suddenly burns through an evanescing cloud.
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Chris Richards,
Washington Post,
7 June 2023
Monkfish in a gripping mussel broth found its voice in between sips of an off-dry Alsatian pinot gris, its honeyed sweetness just evanescing off the brine of the seafood.
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