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When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype, she was so struck by it
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A recent state survey of human resources found that the age
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The most common metal in the Earth’s crust, aluminum
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The evolution of sex ratios has produced, in most plants and
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Advocates insist that health savings accounts are an efficient method
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