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DEFINITION: (noun) An acute, highly infectious, often fatal disease caused by a poxvirus and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. SYNONYMS: smallpox, variola major. USAGE: We could tell from the scars on the faces of the villagers that a variola epidemic had passed through the area not long ago.

Chandler was an American novelist whose writings in the 1940s and 50s significantly impacted the crime thriller genre. His well-plotted and brutally realistic novels feature Philip Marlowe, a hard-boiled yet honorable private detective who became the prototype for the tough-guy private eye of many subsequent American detective novels. In order to indicate his contempt for an iconic filmmaker, Chandler coined a nasty nickname; who was the object of his scorn?

Prince Andrew is currently 4th in the line of succession to the British throne. He has held the title of Duke of York since his marriage to Sarah Ferguson in 1986. Initially, the Duke and Duchess appeared to have a happy marriage, but problems soon surfaced, and the marriage collapsed shortly after tabloid pictures were released showing the Duchess cavorting with her financial advisor. Where does Prince Andrew maintain an office?

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

Filigree is an ornamental work of fine gold or silver wire, often wrought into an openwork design and joined with matching solder under the flame of a blowpipe. It was made in ancient Egypt, China, and India. Saxons, Britons, and especially the Celts in Ireland were skilled at devising intricate and ingenious designs in the Middle Ages. Today, it is employed in Mediterranean areas, as well as in Mexico, India, and Scandinavian countries. Antique examples can be seen in what famous institutions?

British Researchers found that people with lower socio-economic status appear to age faster. The researchers showed that poor people have shorter telomeres, the caps that prevent chromosomes from fraying, which makes them biologically older than people of the same age in higher social groups. The shortness of the telomeres in a cell indicates the number of times the cell has divided and is associated with aging.