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Construction began Monday on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which will serve as a "Noah's Ark" for seeds, ensuring the survival of crop diversity in the event of a global catastrophe. The vault, proposed by Norway a year ago and designed to house as many as 3 million of the world's crop seeds, will be carved into a frozen mountainside on the Svalbard Archipelago. It is scheduled to open and start accepting seeds from around the world in September 2007.

DEFINITION: (noun) The world of the dead. SYNONYMS: Scheol, underworld, Hades, Hel, infernal region, Hell. USAGE: He had nightmares about going to some fiery, haunted netherworld, and awoke the next morning vowing to repent.

The son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, Prince William attended the prestigious Eton College. After graduating, he spent a year participating in British Army training in Belize and working as a volunteer with Raleigh International in southern Chile. He then attended the University of St Andrews in Scotland and graduated in 2005. That year, he was accepted to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. What is William's position in the line of succession to the British throne?

Texas v. Johnson was a decision by the Supreme Court of the US that invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag. The opinion of the court came down as a controversial 5-4 decision, with the majority opinion written by William J. Brennan, Jr. The question the Supreme Court had to answer was this: "Is the desecration of an American flag, by burning or otherwise, a form of speech that is protected under the First Amendment?" What arguments did the Justices make?

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, commonly known as Gray's Anatomy, is a medical reference widely regarded as a classic work on human anatomy. The original book was the work of Henry Gray, an anatomist and teacher at St George's Hospital Medical School in London. First published under the title Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical in 1858, it has been reprinted and expanded numerous times. How old was Henry Gray when he died?