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Some Calutron Girls had more of a sense of what they were working on than others. Butner, who had some training in chemistry, said she and others with a similar background had some sense of what they were doing. They knew they were producing "the Product", and they guessed it was somewhere near the bottom of the periodic table. [6]
Then the Tennessee Eastman operators took over. Nichols compared unit production data, and pointed out to Lawrence that the young "hillbilly" girl operators were outproducing his Ph.Ds. They agreed to a production race and Lawrence lost, a morale boost for the "Calutron Girls" (called Cubicle Operators at the time) and their supervisors. The ...
Zeruiah had three sons, Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, all of whom were soldiers in David's army. II Samuel, I Chronicles [196] [197] Zillah – wife of Lamech and the mother of Tubal-cain and Naamah. Genesis [198] Zilpah – Leah's handmaid who becomes a wife of Jacob and bears him two sons Gad and Asher. Genesis [199] Zipporah – wife of Moses ...
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The initiation rituals of devdasi of pre-pubescent girls included a deflowering ceremony which gave Priests the right to have intercourse with every girl in the temple. In Greece, slaves were required to work as prostitutes and had no right to decline. [25]: 3 The Hebrew Bible code is the only one of these codes that condemns prostitution.
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible. Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but the shortest of the scriptural books with divisions into chapters, generally a page or so in length ...
Kentucky resident Opal Talbott returned to Oak Ridge to celebrate her 101st birthday. She helped make the first atomic bomb.
In the Bible, Lot's wife is a figure first mentioned in Genesis 19. The Book of Genesis describes how she became a pillar of salt after she looked back at Sodom (the "looking taboo" motif in mythology and folklore). She is not named in the Bible, but is called Ado or Edith in some Jewish traditions.