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It has thus been strengthening its grip in southern Syria along the border with Jordan, as part of a broader effort to build a Shia-controlled crescent stretching from Iran through Iraq (already practically an Iranian trusteeship) to Syria and Lebanon.

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Stretching over a million years, the hand axe tradition is the longest artistic tradition in human and proto-human history.

And I lay on the pavement stretching over that yellow line, and one of my neighbors came running over.

If you were standing near enough, your ear would resonate with the squeezing and stretching of space.

Okay, part one starts back in 1929 when the great astronomer Edwin Hubble realized that the distant galaxies were all rushing away from us, establishing that space itself is stretching, it's expanding.

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