More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.

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It is from Marshall that I take a closing thought, first delivered more than six decades ago in the opening years of the Cold War.

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They've even let a new member into the club: The Peninsula Shanghai hotel, which bookends the northern curve of the Bund, was the first new building here in six decades.

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There have been more than 1, 200 number one singles since the first chart was published in the NME six decades ago.

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What followed was one of the most memorable Milan derbies in recent years, as Inter ran out 4-2 winners with Diego Milito scoring a hat trick, the first person do so in this fixture in almost six decades.

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Mrs Clinton arrived in Phnom Penh from Laos where she made history as the first top US diplomat to visit the country in nearly six decades.

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These doubts were proven wrong nearly six decades ago, when the Republic of the Philippines became the first democratic nation in Asia.

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NBC's The Restaurant, this summer's six-episode reality show about a New York bistro, is the first prime-time series in decades produced in part by an ad agency, the Interpublic Group of Cos.

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