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The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army Corps of Engineers. It began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion (the equivalent of about $26 billion now). Although it operated under a tight blanket of security, it was penetrated by Soviet atomic spies. The first device ever detonated was an implosion-type nuclear weapon in the Trinity test (pictured), conducted at New Mexico's Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range on 16 July 1945. Project personnel participated in the Alsos Mission in Europe, and in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war the Manhattan Project conducted weapons testing in Operation Crossroads, developed new weapons, established the network of national laboratories, supported medical research into radiology, and laid the foundations for a nuclear navy. It was replaced by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project in 1947. (Full article...)

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... that in discussing his film Departures, director Yōjirō Takita drew parallels between cellists and morticians?
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... that the video game Thralled was made to focus on "love and caring" and to humanize the tens of millions in modern slavery?
... that the Spanish believed that the fierce Chinamita Maya were cannibals?
... that Josef Masopust was awarded the Ballon d'Or after helping the Czechoslovakian national football team reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final?
... that John Crittle's mother mistook Jimi Hendrix for Jesus?

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... that the baseball career of Charlie Bennett (pictured), who reportedly invented the chest protector, ended when his legs were run over by a train?
... that XELD-TV was the first Mexican television station to affiliate with an American network?
... that Frances McConnell-Mills' father, a doctor, refused to pay for her medical school tuition because he thought medicine was "too hard a life for a woman"?
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1232 – Muhammad ibn Yusuf (pictured), who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.
1790 – President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.
1931 – Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
1983 – A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board.
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