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Ancient Tools Show Our Ancestors Ate a Varied Diet
For the study, scientists examined maces and anvils made from basalt, a type of rock formed from rapidly cooling lava at the Earth’s surface, that ancient humans used to crack and crush plant foods.
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Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 13 Jan. 2025
India have the taste for silverware and want a third crack at the World mace.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Barry’s Anthony Corrigan will play true weirdo Metamorpho, Isabela Merced will take up Hawkgirl’s mace, and Edi Gathegi will play Mister Terrific.
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2025
Hawk Girl: The trailer showed a brief glimpse of Hawk Girl (Isabela Merced) soaring through a stunning Metropolis skyline while wielding her signature mace.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Designers are treating them as conversation pieces to bring more texture, proportion, and detail into a room—we’re seeing bold silhouettes, statement-making legs, faceted fronts that play with light and shadow, and materials ranging from earthy mango wood to coastal cane.—
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Elaborate breads are baked into the shapes of carpenter’s tools, ladders, and canes, which symbolize Joseph’s staff, while bread crumbs are scattered to represent sawdust.—
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There would be fire hoses and spitting dogs and police nightsticks to contend with.—
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No shots were fired, but many were struck with nightsticks and rifle butts, and about 250 were arrested.—
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Cardoso picked up the baton from opening chef Ed Tinoco last summer, and has not looked back.—
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One police officer used a speaker to order protesters to move onto the sidewalk as other officers stood in the street, batons in hand.—
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Even the basic concept of free speech has become another truncheon in the nation’s ongoing battle between tribes.—
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There were police with truncheons and tear gas outside the ground.—
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Asked about the Trump regime’s use of funding as a cudgel Friday, Hochul brushed it off.—
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Impeachment must be reserved for cases involving serious misconduct or corruption, not trotted out as a cudgel to threaten federal jurists for doing their jobs.—
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Peace in Ukraine and the Middle East is proving to be far harder to achieve than the real estate deals envisaged by the president, while the bludgeon of tariffs is raising ever more opposition among erstwhile allies.—
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Mishra then abruptly juxtaposes a scene from Gaza, flush with heavy-handed language that bludgeons home his comparison.—
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The bat's barrel is thicker and wider than a standard baseball bat.—
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The 1981 novel of the same name told of a lovable St. Bernard named Cujo who, after being bitten by a bat, becomes a mouth-foaming killer.—
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The rapper-producer enlisted Armand Hammer’s billy woods and Elucid, Open Mike Eagle, Lupe Fiasco, Homeboy Sandman, and Hanni El Khatib for Black Hole Superette.—
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Soothe your anxiety over murmurs of Radiohead activity by plunging into electronic veteran Mark Pritchard’s new full-length with Thom Yorke; ramp that anxiety up again with a sinister sci-fi concept album from the unstoppable billy woods.—
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“Mace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mace. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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