The Hanford Engineer Works (HEW) was a nuclear production complex in Benton County in the US state of Washington, established in early 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Plutonium manufactured at the HEW was used in the atomic bomb detonated in the Trinity test on 16 July 1945, and the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. DuPont was the prime contractor for its design, construction and operation. The land acquisition was one of the largest in US history. The construction workforce reached a peak of nearly 45,000 in June 1944. B Reactor, the world's first full-scale plutonium production nuclear reactor, went critical in September 1944, followed by D and F Reactors in December 1944 and February 1945, respectively. The HEW suffered an outage on 10 March 1945 due to a Japanese balloon bomb. The total cost of the HEW up to December 1946 was more than $348 million (equivalent to $4.1 billion in 2023). (Full article...)
1994 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter(impact site pictured), with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
Snake handling in Christianity is a rite performed in several churches in the United States. Originating in rural Appalachia, the first instance of snake handling was seen about 1910. Pentecostal minister George Went Hensley was prominent in the early development of the rite. Practitioners commonly quote the gospels of Luke and Mark to support the practice. Practitioners are also encouraged to lay hands on the sick, speak in tongues, and occasionally drink poisons. This photograph, taken by the American photographer Russell Lee in 1946, depicts snake handling at the Church of God with Signs Following, a Pentecostal church in Lejunior, Kentucky.
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Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. Beginning as a cellist and conductor, Offenbach first wrote small-scale one-act pieces, limited by theatrical licensing laws. These eased by 1858 when he premiered his first full-length operetta, Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld). La belle Hélène (1864) and other successes followed. The risqué humour (often about sexual intrigue) and gentle satire in these pieces, together with Offenbach's facility for melody, made them internationally known, and he was a powerful influence on later operetta and musical theatre composers. His best-known works were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his operettas continue to be staged in the 21st century. The Tales of Hoffmann remains part of the standard opera repertory. (Full article...)
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04:3404:34, 15 July 2024 Ryūki Watarai (hist | edit) [1,662 bytes] TSUBAME98(talk | contribs)(←Created page with '{{short description|Japanese baseball player}} {{Infobox NPB player |name=Ryūki Watarai |image=20240309 Ryuki Watarai, outfielder of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, at Yokohama Stadium.jpg |image_size=250px |caption=Watarai with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars |position=Outfielder |team=Yokohama DeNA BayStars |number=4 |bats=Left |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date and age|2002|10|4}} |birth_place=Ichikawa, Chiba, Jap...')
04:2004:20, 15 July 2024 Ryuichiro Sakai (hist | edit) [2,244 bytes] Seacactus 13(talk | contribs)(←Created page with '{{Short description|Japanese sprinter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Ryuichiro Sakai | birth_name = | image = | caption = | nationality = Japanese | sport = Athletics | event = 100 meters | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|3|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan | height = | weight = | club = | coach = | pb = {{ubl |'''60 metr...')Tag: Disambiguation links added
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03:5803:58, 15 July 2024 Jacquelyn Park (hist | edit) [2,542 bytes] Samuelrclaesson(talk | contribs)(←Created page with '{{Short description|American actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacquelyn Park | image = | caption = | birth_name = Mary Scarborough<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/883/Jacquelyn+Park/index.html|title=Jacquelyn Park - The Private Life and Times of Jacquelyn Park. Jacquelyn Park Pictures.|website=www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com}}</ref> | birth_date = June 1926 | birth_place...')Tag: Disambiguation links added
03:4303:43, 15 July 2024 Draft:Buena Vista Beavers football, 1970–1979 (hist | edit) [2,171 bytes] Thetreesarespeakingtome(talk | contribs)(←Created page with '{{Short description|American college football seasons}} The '''Buena Vista Beavers football program from 1970 to 1979''' represented Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in its ninth decade of college football competition. The team was known as the Beavers. ==1970== {{Infobox college sports team season | year = 1970 | team = Buena Vista Beavers | sport = football | image = | image_size = | conference = American Rivers Con...')originally created as "Buena Vista Beavers football, 1970–1979"
03:3903:39, 15 July 2024 Ichirō Tamura (hist | edit) [1,843 bytes] TSUBAME98(talk | contribs)(←Created page with '{{Short description|Japanese baseball player}} {{Infobox NPB player |name=Ichirō Tamura |image=Japanese baseball player tamura ichiro.jpg |image_size=250px |caption= |position=Pitcher |team=Saitama Seibu Lions |number=20 |bats=Left |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date and age|1994|9|19}} |birth_place=Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan |debutleague=NPB |debutdate=May 9 |debutyear=2017 |debutteam=Saitama Seibu Lions |statyear=2023 season |stat1label=Win–loss...')
03:3003:30, 15 July 2024 Natsuki Takeuchi (hist | edit) [1,839 bytes] TSUBAME98(talk | contribs)(←Created page with '{{Short description|Japanese baseball player}} {{Infobox NPB player |name=Natsuki Takeuchi |image=Natsuki Takeuchi Lions 20240424.jpg |image_size=250px |caption= |position=Pitcher |team=Saitama Seibu Lions |number=21 |bats=Left |throws=Left |birth_date={{Birth date and age|2001|7|21}} |birth_place=Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan |debutleague=NPB |debutdate=April 3 |debutyear=2024 |debutteam=Saitama Seibu Lions |statyear=2024 season |stat1label=Win–lo...')
03:2503:25, 15 July 2024 Martin Vician (hist | edit) [2,874 bytes] Das osmnezz(talk | contribs)(←Created page with '{{Short description|Slovak footballer (born 1999)}} {{Infobox football biography |name = Martin Vician |image = |fullname = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1999|1|11|df=y}} |birth_place = Slovakia |height = 1.92 m |position = Midfielder, striker |currentclub = |clubnumber = |youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}–2017 |youthclubs1 = ŠK Slovan Bratislava|Slova...')Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
02:3602:36, 15 July 2024 Seedy and the years (hist | edit) [664 bytes] Ebzster(talk | contribs)(←Created page with 'Seedy and The Years is a band that was formed back in 2017 by long-time friends Joshua Llorente and Carlo Manalo. They wanted to record a few songs that they had written. Carlo contacted childhood friend Nathan Fadera and churchmates Eboy Bautista and Daetrick Aquino to record the guitar, keyboards, and bass parts, respectively. The now-formed group started recording Day Before and an unreleased version of Younger. Due to location and scheduling concern...')
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02:1702:17, 15 July 2024 Aliabbas (hist | edit) [499 bytes] WikiOriginal-9(talk | contribs)(←Created page with ''''Aliabbas''' is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Aliabbas Rzazade (born 1998), Azerbaijani wrestler *Aliabbas Salahzadeh (born 1979), Azerbaijani politician {{Given name}} {{Short pages monitor}}<!-- This long comment was added to the page to prevent it from being listed on Special:Shortpages. It and the accompanying monitoring template were generated via Template:Long comment. Please do not remove the monitoring template wi...')