Blog Heap of Links for the day 13 August 2016

…a man wielding a large blade entered a Marathon Gas Station in East Ridge, TN around 2 a.m. and demanded money and cigarettes… grabbed a female clerk and forced her to go with him, threatening to kill her. …customer in the parking lot… grabbed a handgun… fired multiple shots, hitting the suspect at least once in the torso. The suspected robber …later died from his wounds.…

…The mayor of Cannes has banned the wearing of burkinis on his city’s beaches. He says the Muslim swimwear is a violation of morals and secularism. Human rights groups in France say the mayor has unfairly stigmatized Muslim women, and that his decision plays right into the hands of the Islamic State.

In other news, Bulgaria is concerned that migrants who are being thwarted in their efforts to get into Europe via more westward routes will use the Bulgarian route instead. As a result, the government is building a twenty-mile wall along its border with Turkey.…

…On this day in 1942 Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.…