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Members of the Alsos Missionuncover uranium cubes hidden by scientists in Germany during the end ofWorld War II.

• Sind sparrow (nominated by Innotata) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found around the Indus valley region inSouth Asia. While the birds are "somewhat obscure", according to the nominator, the IUCN Red List classifies it as a species of "least concern".
• Alsos Mission (nominated by Hawkeye7) Part of the Manhattan Project, the effort during World War II by the Allies, principally Britain and the United States, to create an atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project was also charged with coordinating foreign intelligence related to enemy nuclear activity, and the Alsos Mission was an effort to find out what the German research programs had discovered, and prevent the research from getting to the Russians.