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By Rachael Cleipher

If you’re like me, than you have a little trouble memorizing facts or quotes or things of the like. For my entire school career I had trouble learning facts like my times tables or my spanish alphabet. I could never get the information in my head long enough to stay put. I could read a sheet of paper with important facts over and over and not be able to repeat the information an hour later. I somehow managed to make it through high school and into college. It was my first college roommate that saved me the rest of my career with her tried and true learning method: the use of flashcards.

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DEFINITION: (noun) A concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location. SYNONYMS: handbook, vade mecum. USAGE: Over the years, the prisoner had spent time memorizing every enchiridion he could find and had become a virtual encyclopedia of knowledge.

King George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland. During his reign, Britain lost many of its colonies in North America, and the realms of Great Britain and Ireland united to form the United Kingdom. He suffered a short nervous breakdown in 1765 and a more serious one in 1788–89, sparking a conflict over the powers to be vested in the regency. He became permanently insane in 1810. One theory claims his condition was a result of what hereditary blood disease?

Henry Ford was an American engineer who is widely credited with developing the world's first modern assembly line used in mass production. After becoming chief engineer of the Edison Illuminating Company in 1893, Ford was able to devote attention to his personal experiments on internal combustion engines, which culminated in 1896 with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle named the Quadricycle. What was Ford's highly unusual "wage motive" concept?

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

In Greek mythology, Persephone was queen of the underworld. As a young maiden, she was seized by Hades, who fed her the food of the dead, pomegranate seeds, and forced her to inhabit the underworld for 6 months out of every year: When she left the earth, all the flowers withered, but when she returned, life blossomed anew. The myth symbolizes the growth and decay of vegetation and the changing seasons. According to Greek mythology, who were Persephone's parents?

China's Xinhua news agency reported that the Yangtze River is "cancerous" with pollution. Environmental experts say industrial waste and sewage, agricultural pollution and shipping discharges are to blame; they are calling for an urgent clean-up, fearing that the pollution could kill the river within 5 years. China is facing a severe water crisis; the government has been spending heavily to clean major waterways like the Yellow, Huaihe and Yangtze rivers.