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Lie detector test, part of a security screening

The Clinton Engineer Works was the site of the Manhattan Project's World War II production facilities that provided the enriched uranium used in the bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. Its X-10 Graphite Reactor produced the first samples of plutonium from a reactor. Located just south of the town of Clinton, Tennessee, it included the production facilities of the K-25, Y-12 and S-50 projects, various utilities, and the township of Oak Ridge. The Manhattan District Engineer, Kenneth Nichols, moved the Manhattan District headquarters there from Manhattan in August 1943. Many construction workers were housed in large temporary communities, including Happy Valley. The construction labor force peaked at 75,000. Oak Ridge was established to house the operating staff, which peaked at 50,000 workers just after the war. It was developed by the federal government as a segregated community; black residents lived in an area known as Gamble Valley, in government-built hutments of one-room shacks. (Full article...)

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The Biblical Magi visiting Jesus

... that the Epiphany anthem "The Three Kings" describes the visit of the Biblical Magi to the baby Jesus (pictured)?
... that "mend it, don't end it" was advice given by the president of the Nehemiah Corporation of America to the U.S. Congress at a hearing on down payment assistance?
... that George S. Zimbel's white dress shoot of Marilyn Monroe remained unpublished for 20 years after he took the photos?
... that rocks from the Lesser Himalayan Strata show that the northern part of the Indian plate submerged in the late Cretaceous period?
... that Raón Street in Manila was named after former Governor-General José Antonio Raón y Gutiérrez?
... that the $2.3 billion Spring District in Bellevue, Washington, is the second largest construction project in the Puget Sound region?
... that Betty Campbell was the first black head teacher in Wales?
... that the stage of the Tianhou Palace in Ningbo was positioned for the gods to watch Chinese opera?

In the news

Reina nightclub

An attack on a nightclub (pictured) in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year's celebrations, kills at least 39 people and injures more than 70 others.
American actress, screenwriter, and author Carrie Fisher dies at the age of 60, and her mother, actress and singer Debbie Reynolds, dies one day later at the age of 84.
English singer, songwriter, and record producer George Michael dies at the age of 53.
A Tupolev Tu-154 crashes near Sochi, Russia, killing all 92 people on board, including 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble.

On this day...

January 6: Epiphany (Gregorian calendar); Little Christmas in Ireland

Maria Montessori

1066 – Harold Godwinson, widely regarded as the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman conquest, was crowned King of England.
1449 – The last Byzantine-Roman Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was crowned, four years before the Fall of Constantinople.
1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day-care centre for working-class children in Rome, employing the philosophy of education that now bears her name.
1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference, an organisation of socialist political parties in Asia, opened in Rangoon, Burma, with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.
1977 – The record label EMI ended its contract with the English punk rock band Sex Pistols in response to its members' disruptive behaviour at Heathrow Airport two days earlier.

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Lecrae (left) with Akon (right) at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards

Lecrae is an American Christian hip hop artist whose career began in 2004 when he and Ben Washer co-founded the record label Reach Records. He has received sixteen awards and an additional twenty-nine nominations. In 2011 his fourth album, Rehab (2010), received a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album. The following year he garnered two GMA Dove Awards: Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year for Rehab: The Overdose (2011) and Rap/Hip Hop Recorded Song of the Year for "Hallelujah" (2011). In 2013, Lecrae became the first hip hop artist to win the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album, which was awarded to his sixth album Gravity. The album also won Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year at the GMA Dove Awards, and a Stellar Award for Rap, Hip Hop Gospel CD of the Year. In 2015, he received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for "Messengers" (2014), Artist of the Year, Rap/Hip-Hop Song of the Year and Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year at the Dove Awards, a Stellar Award for Rap, Hip Hop Gospel CD of the Year for Anomaly (2014), and became the first rapper to win a BET Award for Best Gospel Artist. (Full list...)

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A still life painting by Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten that depicts the backside of a painting used as a letter-rack through the artistic technique trompe-l'œil. This technique, which is translatable as deceive the eye, uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

Painting: Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten

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