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Archaeologists report that they have found evidence that ancient people grew fig trees some 11,400 years ago. The find suggests that the fig was the earliest domesticated crop, in use some 1,000 years before wheat, barley, and legumes were being cultivated in the Middle East. Ancient fig remains were found at Gilgal I, a village site in the Jordan Valley, north of ancient Jericho. The finding was reported in the journal Science.

DEFINITION: (noun) A petty, quibbling, unscrupulous lawyer. SYNONYMS: shyster. USAGE: He was by all accounts a pettifogger, and judges dreaded having him appear in their courtrooms.

Garrett was a lawman, bartender, and customs agent who was appointed sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, in 1880. As sheriff, he was charged with tracking down and arresting Henry McCarty, a jail escapee and participant in the Lincoln County War, better known as Billy the Kid. How did Garrett ultimately succeed in killing the Kid, and why did this act eventually sully his reputation?

Brandeis was an American lawyer and the author of the Brandeis Brief, a report that detailed the impact of long working hours on women and revolutionized the practice of law. He was also a leader of the American Zionist movement. Appointed to the Supreme Court by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, he served until 1939 and was the first Jew to hold that office. Brandeis University, the only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored university in the US, is named after him. What other institutions bear his name?

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Isadora Duncan was an American dancer who is considered the Mother of Modern Dance. Although never very popular in the US, she entertained throughout Europe and eventually moved to Paris. An innovator, pioneer, and liberator of the expressive movement, she was inspired by the drama of ancient Greece and danced barefoot, wearing a loose tunic. Duncan was as notorious for her private life as for her work, which was considered scandalous at the time. How did Duncan die?