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Southern and southwestern areas were even drier, receiving less than 20 percent of normal rainfall.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
In southwestern France, the hurdles to adaptation are formidable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Then in 1857, the regime of Emperor Napoleon III ordered the planting of maritime pines to drain the bogs of southwestern France.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
This has now been confirmed in a landmark court ruling in the southwestern town of Bayonne, which said that cosmic radiation was one of three carcinogenic hazards arising from her profession.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Early in 1942, a young Soviet physicist named Georgi Flerov sat in the library of a military base in southwestern Russia, flipping through a tall stack of physics journals from the United States.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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