This is the first known use of social media being employed in this manner though, and the growth of individual online presences will only make it easier for the U.S. to do it again.

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The Bill, which has been on air for 25 years, is being comprehensively overhauled, including an end to its well-known theme tune and the use of incidental music for the first time.

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This is the second known use of a sapphire in jewellery found in the country, the first being a 5th Century Roman example, said the museum.

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Bank of New York, which was founded in 1784 by Alexander Hamilton, America's first Treasury secretary, knows that hostile acquisitions are rarely able to use an accounting process known as pooling, which is much kinder to the profitability of the combined firms than the alternative acquisition accounting.

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