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How American journalists covered the first use of the atomic bomb

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imageHiroshima, August 6 1945, and Nagasaki, August 9 1945. CC BY-SA

Seventy years ago this week, the US military revealed the greatest (and best-kept) secret of the Allied effort to win World War II.

The use of the atomic bomb proved to the world that it was indeed possible to make one.

But how had it been possible to keep the secret? And how did US...

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Statistics professors give Fox News a B- on their big polling test

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imagePop quiz! How many of the GOP presidential candidates can you name?File/Reuters

The results are in.

Fox News has settled on the 10 Republican candidates who will do battle on the “main stage” during the first televised GOP debate.

As expected, Donald Trump will take center stage as the undisputed leader of the polls, with an average...

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Lessons from Charles Dickens for the new Premier League season

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imageUp for grabs.EPA/Wallace Woon

Codified football probably appeared too late in his life for Charles Dickens to have become a hardcore fan, but there are prophetic messages in his work for the sport.

The opening lines of Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities have some important pointers for football clubs about to kick-off the impending English Premier...

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