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.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1066:
Harold Godwinson, widely regarded as the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman conquest, was crowned King of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Godwinson
1449:
The last Byzantine-Roman Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was crowned, four years before the Fall of Constantinople. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_XI_Palaiologos
1907:
Italian educator Maria Montessori opened her first school and day-care centre for working-class children in Rome, employing the philosophy of education that now bears her name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montessori
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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Socialist_Conference
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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Pistols
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
Twelfthtide: (archaic or obsolete) The season including Epiphany (the twelfth day after Christmas) and the evening of the preceding day (Twelfth Night), regarded as the end of the Christmas season; Epiphany itself. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Twelfthtide
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
My aim is not the establishment of an anarchist society or the total destruction of the state. Here I differ from anarchists. I do not believe that it is possible to destroy the modern state. It is pure imagination to think that some day this power will be overthrown. From a pragmatic standpoint there is no chance of success. Furthermore, I do not believe that anarchist doctrine is the solution to the problem of organization in society and government. I do not think that if anarchism were to succeed we should have a better or more livable society. Hence I am not fighting for the triumph of this doctrine. On the other hand, it seems to me that an anarchist attitude is the only one that is sufficiently radical in the face of a general statist system. --Jacques Ellul https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul
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