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Lie detector test, administered at the Clinton Engineer Works as part of a security screening
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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Lecrae (left) with Akon (right) at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards
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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Trompe-l'œil

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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