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DEFINITION: (noun) A gathering, flowing, or meeting together at one juncture or point. SYNONYMS: meeting. USAGE: He had long noted that the greatest disasters were rarely the result of one misfortune but were the result of a confluence of several of them.

Nordau was a Hungarian Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He co-founded the World Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and was president or vice president of several Zionist congresses. As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization, Degeneration, and Paradoxes. Nordau was a fully assimilated and acculturated European Jew when what major event sparked his interest in Zionism?

Umberto I, son of Vittorio Emanuele II of the House of Savoy, was the King of Italy from January 9, 1878 until his death. Officially nicknamed "the Good," he was deeply loathed in left-wing circles because of his hard-line conservatism and support of the Bava Beccaris massacre in Milan. He was the only modern King of Italy to be assassinated. How many attempts on his life did he escape before he was killed?

Researchers found that people who ate a low-fat vegan diet lowered their blood sugar more and lost more weight than people on a standard American Diabetes Association diet. Those adhering to the vegan diet, which cuts out all meat and dairy, also ended up with better kidney function. Participants said the vegan diet was easier to follow than other food regimens.

Gibran was a Lebanese poet and novelist who wrote in both English and Arabic. In 1895, at the age of 12, he caught the attention of his public school teachers in Boston. He later moved to Paris and studied with Auguste Rodin, then settled in New York in 1912 and devoted himself to writing and painting. Fusing elements of Eastern and Western mysticism, he achieved lasting fame with such aphoristic, poetic works as The Prophet and Jesus, the Son of Man.