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Clip shows plane crash in Chile in 2024, predating LA wildfires
Experts have pointed to a mix of high winds, low humidity and ongoing drought as key factors in the spread of the wildfires in southern California.
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Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
The Pro Pickleball Medal Tracker has now been updated with these results; check out this link online for a complete pro medal history for all tours and all pro events dating to the beginnings of all the major pro tours, plus pro events that predated 2020.
—Todd Boss, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Scholars today are hard-pressed to distinguish a significant large-scale, modern steel public sculpture in the South that predates it.
—Mary Logan Bikoff, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
An old rule did not allow destroying drugs unless cases predated 2005.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
The Pro Pickleball Medal Tracker has now been updated with these results; check out this link online for a complete pro medal history for all tours and all pro events dating to the beginnings of all the major pro tours, plus pro events that predated 2020.
—Todd Boss, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Scholars today are hard-pressed to distinguish a significant large-scale, modern steel public sculpture in the South that predates it.
—Mary Logan Bikoff, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
An old rule did not allow destroying drugs unless cases predated 2005.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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