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Money was so tight, remembers Ms. Kameen, a board member at the time, that “the big decision as a board member back then was if we would get an electric typewriter.” 0.950

👤 Ms. Kameen 📋 News Article 🏷️ Finance , History

Simplified: Ms Kameen remembers the big decision was if they would get an electric typewriter

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7 months ago
They were transformed into a claustrophobic, if evocative, museum about the prison and prison reform in 19th-century Quebec. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Museum

Simplified: Cells were transformed into a museum about prison and prison reform in 19th-century Quebec

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7 months ago
A series of provincial laws enacted over the last five decades were meant to assert the dominance of French, along with Quebec’s separatist movement, prompted an exodus of many English speakers to oth... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Language , History

Simplified: Provincial laws enacted over last five decades prompted an exodus of many English speakers to other parts of Canada

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7 months ago
“We have to remember the odysseys of our mothers and fathers, our grandfathers and grandmothers in Latin America, in the Caribbean and Europe,” he told Parliament last year. 0.950

👤 Mr. Sánchez 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Migration

Simplified: He told Parliament last year we have to remember the odysseys of our mothers and fathers our grandfathers and grandmothers in Latin America in the Car...

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7 months ago
During the Spanish Civil War and the four-decade-long dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, some two million people were forced to leave the country. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ History , Immigration

Simplified: During Spanish Civil War and four-decade-long dictatorship of Gen Francisco Franco some two million people were forced to leave the country

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7 months ago
After the 2008 financial crisis, which sent unemployment soaring to 25 percent, thousands of professionals left Spain for jobs abroad. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Economy , History , Unemployment

Simplified: After 2008 financial crisis which sent unemployment soaring to 25 percent thousands of professionals left Spain for jobs abroad

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7 months ago
Spain was for centuries a mass exporter of people. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ History , Immigration

Simplified: Spain was for centuries a mass exporter of people

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7 months ago
Mr. Fetterman backed Mr. Shapiro’s bid for attorney general in 2016, hosting fund-raisers at his home, he wrote. 0.900

👤 Mr. Fetterman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Mr Fetterman backed Mr Shapiro's bid for attorney general in 2016 hosting fund-raisers at his home

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7 months ago
Mr. Fetterman wrote that they met while serving as electors for President Barack Obama. 0.900

👤 Mr. Fetterman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Mr Fetterman wrote they met while serving as electors for President Barack Obama

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7 months ago
Things began to deteriorate when they served on Pennsylvania’s Board of Pardons. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Things began to deteriorate when they served on Pennsylvania's Board of Pardons

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7 months ago
Mr. Trump touched on the theme in his address, again raising a recent promise to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” and proposing to officially rename North America’s tallest peak Mount M... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Trump touched on the theme in his address again raising a recent promise to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America and proposing to officially...

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7 months ago
In his previous administration, Mr. Trump railed against efforts to teach children about slavery and his conservative allies supported the movement to remove books about race and gender from school li... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History , Education

Simplified: Trump railed against efforts to teach children about slavery and his conservative allies supported the movement to remove books about race and gender...

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7 months ago
In the early 20th century, colleges considered intangible factors such as character, leadership and athleticism. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Education

Simplified: Colleges considered intangible factors such as character leadership and athleticism in the early 20th century.

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7 months ago
After World War II, when the United States faced increased military and scientific competition from the Soviet Union, selective universities began to assign greater weight to academic factors, includi... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Education

Simplified: Selective universities began to assign greater weight to academic factors including the SAT after World War II.

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7 months ago
Those criteria were also often used to depress the representation of certain groups, such as Jewish students. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Education

Simplified: Those criteria were often used to depress the representation of certain groups.

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7 months ago
In his memoir “Eat a Peach,” which chronicles his rise to fame, David Chang tells the story of an early customer at Noodle Bar who, after eating a crawfish special, suggested that the kitchen serve cr... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Person , History

Simplified: David Chang tells story of early customer at Noodle Bar who suggested kitchen serve crustaceans out of shell next time

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7 months ago
The cacio e pepe served a decade ago at Momofuku’s Nishi, in which a housemade chickpea miso dared to replace the umami charge of pecorino, is just another blueprint now for easy weeknight recipes. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Food

Simplified: Cacio e pepe served a decade ago at Momofuku's Nishi is just another blueprint now for easy weeknight recipes

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7 months ago
Westfield Century City grew out of an old 20th Century Fox backlot on the West side of Los Angeles in the 1960s. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Mall

Simplified: Westfield Century City grew out of an old 20th Century Fox backlot in the 1960s

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7 months ago
Steven Spielberg’s Dive! was once a draw here. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Restaurant

Simplified: Steven Spielberg's Dive! was once a draw here

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7 months ago
George W. Bush attended a conference of dissidents in Prague in 2007. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: George W Bush attended a conference of dissidents in Prague in 2007

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7 months ago