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tickety-boo: Word of the day for January 22, 2018

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Word of the day is tickety-boo : (chiefly Britain, informal) Correct, satisfactory.

Picture of the day for January 22, 2018

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Picture of the day on January 22, 2018: VKG Ojamaa mine for oil shale extraction, using an Atlas Copco underground loader.

Everything Really Gets Turned Upside Down For The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air In This 'SNL' Parody

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Everything Really Gets Turned Upside Down For The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air In This 'SNL' Parody What happens after Will gets to Bel Air in the theme song? Nothing good. January 21, 2018 at 02:39PM

The Invasion of the German Board Games

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The Invasion of the German Board Games Their peaceful premises and intricate rule systems are changing the way Americans play — and helping shape an industry in the process.

Article of the day for January 22, 2018

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Article of the day is S-50 (Manhattan Project). Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Article of the day for January 22, 2018

The Article of the day for January 22, 2018 is S-50 (Manhattan Project) . The S-50 Project was the Manhattan Project's effort to produce enriched uranium by liquid thermal diffusion during World War II. The process was developed by Philip H. Abelson and other scientists at the United States Naval Research Laboratory, and was one of three technologies for uranium enrichment pursued by the Manhattan Project. Pilot plants were built at the Anacostia Naval Air Station and the Philadelphia Navy Yard. A facility at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was the only production-scale liquid thermal diffusion plant ever built. It could not enrich uranium sufficiently for use in an atomic bomb, but it could begin the process of enrichment that was completed by the Y-12 calutrons and the K-25 gaseous diffusion plants. It sped up the production of enriched uranium for the Little Boy bomb used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This plant ceased production in September 1945, but

The Invasion of the German Board Games

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The Invasion of the German Board Games

tickety-boo: Word of the day for January 22, 2018

tickety-boo , adj : (chiefly Britain, informal) Correct, satisfactory.

Picture of the day for January 22, 2018

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VKG Ojamaa mine for oil shale extraction, using an Atlas Copco underground loader..

Everything Really Gets Turned Upside Down For The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air In This 'SNL' Parody

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Everything Really Gets Turned Upside Down For The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air In This 'SNL' Parody