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On Tuesday, bidders paid 100 times the advance estimate for 192 pieces of the late Princess Margaret's jewelry, including the tiara she wore at her wedding to Lord Snowdon-- it fetched $1.7 million. The Christie's auction continues Wednesday, when furniture and decorative items will be offered. They are being sold by Margaret's children, Viscount David Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, who plan to use proceeds to pay a $5.5 million estate tax.

DEFINITION: (noun) A connoisseur of fine wines. SYNONYMS: wine lover, oenophilist. USAGE: The oenophile was heartbroken when months of heavy rain ruined a particularly promising grape harvest.

Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who first identified what is today called Alzheimer's Disease. He observed the disease in a patient he saw in 1901, and he published his findings after a postmortem examination of her brain in 1906. What progress has been made in the treatment of this degenerative disease since its discovery?

The Flag Act reads: "Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." When this resolution was proposed, there was no particular symbolism attached to the flag's colors. Meanings were later assigned on June 20, 1782, when Charles Thomson gave a report to Congress defining the new Great Seal of the US. What do the colors now represent?

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The Great Sphinx is a half-human statue with the face of a man and the body of a lion, with a small temple between its paws. Located on the west bank of the Nile River, near modern-day Cairo, Egypt, it is one of the largest single-stone statues in the world. It is commonly believed by Egyptologists to have been built by ancient Egyptians in the 3rd millennium BC. What mysteries associated with the statue are collectively known as the "riddle of the sphinx?"