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Jillian Becker
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “novelist”. Today it says “south african-born british author”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Published works; Institute for the Study of Terrorism”.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Jillian Becker (born 1932 Johannesburg , South Africa ) is a novelist , prize-winning story-writer, critic , journalist , lecturer, best known internationally as a writer, researcher, and authority on the subject of terrorism .1 See for example, [1]2
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “novelist”. Today it says “south african-born british author”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Published works; Institute for the Study of Terrorism”. Read the current article and compare.
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| terror | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
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Then
novelist
Now
south african-born british author
Sections that no longer exist
Present on October 6, 2023, absent today, with no near-matching heading in the current article and the article shorter overall, so this is not a renamed heading or a topic absorbed into a fuller treatment. 2 sections of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 637 characters shorter.
- Published works
- Institute for the Study of Terrorism
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