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Today's featured article Paul McCartney "The Long and Winding Road" is a song by the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. A piano ballad, Paul McCartney (pictured) composed the song in 1968 at his farm in Scotland. He was driven by the Beatles' growing bitterness towards each other. Main recording was done in January 1969 as part of the Get Back album project, but for a while no album resulted. John Lennon and George Harrison later lent the Get Back recordings from January to producer Phil Spector so that he could attempt to assemble an album out of them. For the recording of "The Long and Winding Road", Spector added lavish orchestral and choral overdubs, much to McCartney's chagrin and to the frustration of many music critics, although many others came to their defence. It was released on Let It Be in May 1970, a month after McCartney announced the breakup of the Beatles, and marked the band's twentieth and final song topping the Billboard Hot 100. Retrospective reviews have been kinder to the song than some at the time. (Full article...)
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Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian-American physicist who was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. He created the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and is one of 16 scientists who have elements named after them. One of the few physicists to excel in both theoretical and experimental work, he made significant contributions to quantum theory, statistical mechanics, and nuclear and particle physics. He helped formulate Fermi–Dirac statistics for particles that obey Wolfgang Pauli's exclusion principle, called "fermions". His theory of beta decay correctly predicted that a particle he named the "neutrino" would be emitted along with an electron, satisfying the law of conservation of energy. He left Italy in 1938 to escape the Italian racial laws that affected his Jewish wife Laura, and emigrated to the United States. He worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, but later opposed development of the hydrogen bomb on moral and technical grounds. This photograph of Fermi was taken in the 1940s and is in the collection of the National Archives and Records Administration. Photograph credit: United States Department of Energy; restored by Yann ForgetDid you know... Viburnum awabuki hedge
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