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Following the Second World War, the concept of adolescence as a unique life stage was bolstered by advertisers who saw profit potential in targeting a teen market.
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
During the Second World War, the country’s small but sophisticated atomic-weapons program, known as Tube Alloys, was merged with the Manhattan Project, and Britain sent scientists (including Klaus Fuchs, a Soviet spy) to Los Alamos.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
If for nothing else, this happy announcement should help lift the spirits of a film community rattled by the country’s impending parliamentary elections, which could very likely bring to power France’s first far-right government since the Second World War.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 19 June 2024
Many of the grandest suites are named after the great figures that worked in them: the Haldane, for instance, was occupied by successive Secretaries of State for War; while the Churchill Suite was originally the army council room, where critical decisions were made during the Second World War.
—Leaf Arbuthnot, The Week Uk, theweek, 10 June 2024
Every president also has to make political calculations, not just these two presidents, but presidents as far back as President Roosevelt in the Second World War had to balance internal U.S. political objectives with what was going on around the world.
—CBS News, 2 June 2024
The passing of time had done little to make the Second World War look any less like a struggle for the very soul of the planet, one that could easily have been lost at several turning points — the D-Day Invasion of Normandy among them.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
Ventotene is also where the manifesto for a united Europe (the precursor to the EU) was written during the Second World War.
—Charlotte Davey, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2024
The battles on D-Day of June 6, 1944, and in the weeks that followed, pushed the German forces back from the coast and across France and were among the most important in bringing about the end of the Second World War, which ended almost a year later.
—Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 29 May 2024
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
During the Second World War, the country’s small but sophisticated atomic-weapons program, known as Tube Alloys, was merged with the Manhattan Project, and Britain sent scientists (including Klaus Fuchs, a Soviet spy) to Los Alamos.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
If for nothing else, this happy announcement should help lift the spirits of a film community rattled by the country’s impending parliamentary elections, which could very likely bring to power France’s first far-right government since the Second World War.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 19 June 2024
Many of the grandest suites are named after the great figures that worked in them: the Haldane, for instance, was occupied by successive Secretaries of State for War; while the Churchill Suite was originally the army council room, where critical decisions were made during the Second World War.
—Leaf Arbuthnot, The Week Uk, theweek, 10 June 2024
Every president also has to make political calculations, not just these two presidents, but presidents as far back as President Roosevelt in the Second World War had to balance internal U.S. political objectives with what was going on around the world.
—CBS News, 2 June 2024
The passing of time had done little to make the Second World War look any less like a struggle for the very soul of the planet, one that could easily have been lost at several turning points — the D-Day Invasion of Normandy among them.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
Ventotene is also where the manifesto for a united Europe (the precursor to the EU) was written during the Second World War.
—Charlotte Davey, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2024
The battles on D-Day of June 6, 1944, and in the weeks that followed, pushed the German forces back from the coast and across France and were among the most important in bringing about the end of the Second World War, which ended almost a year later.
—Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 29 May 2024
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