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Greatest Headline Hits -II

Gandhi, Churchill ‘myth’, Sherlock real for Britons

You have to read to the fourth paragraph to realise that by “Britons”, they mean “British teenagers”.

Bonus bad writing: The article seems to say that Florence Nightingale was fictional. I don’t know if it was ignorance or bad writing on the part of the writer.

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February 4, 2008 Ravikiran Rao
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Great Moments in Headline Writing

‘Indian netizens world’s third biggest online shoppers’
The article actually says that India is the third largest when it comes to percentage of online shoppers who use credit cards for shopping. 

January 28, 2008February 4, 2008 Ravikiran Rao
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