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rerun

//ˈɹiɹʌn//

noun

An act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.

verb

To run again; to repeat.

Syn: repeat Syn: reair

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“Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.”
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Promenade, Norderney, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Artist: Dietmar Rabich

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... that tomato soup cake became popular during the Great Depression?

... that Australian Laura Davoli was one of two UT Arlington players at the 2026 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships?

... that a 14-year-old from Aberystwyth shaved his head to raise money for Latch Wales in support of a friend with kidney cancer?

... that Estanis Condori began taking part in peasant leadership while in intermediate school, and led his town's trade union before the age of 20?

... that in 2023, the Indian Space Research Organisation became the first national space agency to land a spacecraft successfully near the lunar south pole?

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From 6 to 12 October 2026, the Houthis in Yemen launched a series of ballistic missile and drone attacks on three airports in Saudi Arabia, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 370 others. It is the deadliest series of attacks in the country since the Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings in May 2015, and is the deadliest of the attacks on the Gulf Arab states since the beginning of the 2026 Iran war.

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Navanetham Pillay is a South African jurist who served as the high commissioner for human rights of the United Nations from 2008 to 2014. A South African of Tamil origin, Pillay was the first non-white female judge of the High Court of South Africa. She has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She is to be awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

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Anne Patricia Carson is a Canadian academic and author. Born in Toronto, she graduated from the University of Toronto and became a professor and lecturer at several universities since 1979. Throughout her career she has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing. She has taught at the University of Calgary, Princeton University, McGill University, University of Michigan, and New York University. Carson has written more than twenty books, including collections of essays and poetry, as well as translations of ancient Greek tragedies.

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Margaret Elaine Hamilton was an American computer scientist. She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded the software companies Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986 — both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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The Hunger (collection)

The Hunger is the seventh collection by British designer Alexander McQueen, released for the Spring/Summer 1996 season of his eponymous fashion house. The collection was primarily inspired by The Hunger, a 1983 erotic horror film about vampires. McQueen had limited financial backing, so the collection was created on a minimal budget. Typically for McQueen in the early stages of his career, the collection centred around sharply tailored garments and emphasised female sexuality. It was his first collection to include menswear.

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Promenade, Norderney, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Artist: Dietmar Rabich

Did You Know

... that tomato soup cake became popular during the Great Depression?

... that Australian Laura Davoli was one of two UT Arlington players at the 2026 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships?

... that a 14-year-old from Aberystwyth shaved his head to raise money for Latch Wales in support of a friend with kidney cancer?

... that Estanis Condori began taking part in peasant leadership while in intermediate school, and led his town's trade union before the age of 20?

... that in 2023, the Indian Space Research Organisation became the first national space agency to land a spacecraft successfully near the lunar south pole?

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