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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]
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 women were trained like soldiers not to reason why, while "the scientists could not refrain from time-consuming investigation of the cause of even minor fluctuations of the dials". [79]
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 ...
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.
The Tz'enah Ur'enah (Hebrew: צְאֶנָה וּרְאֶינָה Ṣʼenā urʼenā "Go forth and see"; Yiddish pronunciation: [ˌʦɛnəˈʁɛnə]; Hebrew pronunciation: [ʦeˈʔena uʁˈʔena]), also spelt Tsene-rene and Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the Women's Bible, is a Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the weekly Torah portions and Haftarahs used in Jewish prayer ...
The Book of Genesis in a c. 1300 Hebrew Bible The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa a), one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, is the oldest complete copy of the Book of Isaiah. The Bible is not a single book; it is a collection of books whose complex development is not completely understood.
Kentucky resident Opal Talbott returned to Oak Ridge to celebrate her 101st birthday. She helped make the first atomic bomb.
According to the NIV translation, these men were only "pledged to marry" his daughters. Robert Alter suggests that the reference in verse 15 to "your two daughters who remain with you" indicates that Lot's two virgin daughters left the city with him, but that he had other, married daughters who stayed behind with the sons-in-law.