In France, the number of deaths recorded between 22 and 28 June increased by 2,025 – nearly 30%, the Public Health France agency announced on Friday. Deaths rose by 62% in the Paris region alone.
— “France records 2,025 excess deaths at peak of heatwave as Europe braces for more extreme weather,” BBC World
(2,977 people died in the attacks on 9/11)
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This is 168 stories, one per year from 1776 to 1943. Every person in them was real. Most of them you’ve never heard of: fishermen and farmers, shoemakers and mill workers, people who crossed oceans and some who never left their town. They are the people who made [my] four grandparents.
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