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This is the second time that I have notice a title change in HN where the original article has "The Man..." or "The Woman..." changed in the HN title to "A Man..." or "A Woman...". Why is this done?

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Accuracy at a guess, the number of men who have transformed US theater is greater than one.

See, also, John Wilkes Booth.

And on that note shouldn’t it be “[A] Man…” so we can tell the title was changed on a cursory glance.

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