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Los Alamos was built in secret during the Second World War—J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the lab there as part of the Manhattan Project.
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Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
In 1942, the United States had entered the Second World War and was facing the daunting problem of how to move massive amounts of men, munitions, and supplies across the Atlantic Ocean to Britain in the face of Germany's all-out U-boat offensive to sink as much Allied shipping as possible.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
Through the Roosevelts, we are introduced to Mary Mcleod Bethune, played by Oprah Winfrey, Head of the National Council of Negro Women during the Second World War.
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Endemol Shine Italy and Rai Fiction are producing the adaptation, which is set in Tuscany during the Second World War and follows a psychiatrist challenging the repressive confines of a women’s psychiatric hospital.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
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Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
In 1942, the United States had entered the Second World War and was facing the daunting problem of how to move massive amounts of men, munitions, and supplies across the Atlantic Ocean to Britain in the face of Germany's all-out U-boat offensive to sink as much Allied shipping as possible.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
Through the Roosevelts, we are introduced to Mary Mcleod Bethune, played by Oprah Winfrey, Head of the National Council of Negro Women during the Second World War.
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Endemol Shine Italy and Rai Fiction are producing the adaptation, which is set in Tuscany during the Second World War and follows a psychiatrist challenging the repressive confines of a women’s psychiatric hospital.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
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