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Sport has historically functioned as a rare space of cross-national social contact, particularly for people from closed or semi-closed societies. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Sport , History , Social

Simplified: Sport has historically functioned as a rare space of cross-national social contact particularly for people from closed or semi-closed societies

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2 months ago
So too are many of the United States’ post–Cold War military campaigns and Britain’s imperial history, which continues to shape global inequalities and political relationships today. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Many of the United States’ post–Cold War military campaigns and Britain’s imperial history shape global inequalities and political relationships today

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He also ignored the most violent episode in Washington’s recent history: the Jan. 6, 2021, riot as the Capitol, where his supporters sought to stop the certification of the 2020 election he lost. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: He also ignored most violent episode in Washington's recent history Jan 6 2021 riot as Capitol

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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 🏷️ History , Finance

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

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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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A series of fund-raising events and government grants financed extensive renovations, and the building’s history became an asset. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Finance

Simplified: Fund-raising events and government grants financed extensive renovations and building's history became an asset

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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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“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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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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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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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 🏷️ History , Economy , 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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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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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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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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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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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 , Education , History

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

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , History

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

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

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , History

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

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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 🏷️ Education , History

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

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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 🏷️ Food , History

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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