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DEFINITION: (adjective) Difficult to carry or manage because of size, shape, weight, or complexity. SYNONYMS: unmanageable. USAGE: She shifted the unwieldy groceries in her arms and looked for an empty shopping cart.

Stravinsky was a Russian-American composer considered by many to be the greatest and most versatile composer of the 20th century. He is best known for two ballets, The Rite of Spring and The Firebird, which critics say virtually reinvented the genre. Stravinsky also achieved fame as a pianist and conductor, often at the premieres of his own works. In his Serial period, he began using what method of composition invented by Arnold Schoenberg?

Eugene Weidmann was a convicted thief, kidnapper, and murderer who was the last person to be publicly executed in France. After being arrested and confessing to all his murders, he was beheaded by the guillotine in Versailles, outside the prison Saint-Pierre. The "hysterical behavior" of spectators was so scandalous that French President Albert Lebrun immediately banned all future public executions. Executions by guillotine in France continued in private until what date?

Moderation is a fatal thing... Nothing succeeds like excess.

Shuji Nakamura, an engineer and professor, has been awarded the $1.2 million Millennium Technology Prize for his inventions in light and laser technology. Nakamura developed the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, widely used in traffic signals and for storing information on optical disks. This is the second time the prize has been awarded; the first recipient was Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited with having invented the World Wide Web.

The Hope Diamond is a large, blue diamond, currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Its history can be traced to a diamond named "Tavernier Blue," a crudely cut stone of about 112 carats originally mined in India, which King Louis XIV of France later purchased and cut into "the Blue Diamond of the Crown," or "the French Blue." Legend has it that the Hope Diamond is cursed and causes misfortune to befall its possessors. How did it acquire this reputation?