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DEFINITION: (adjective) Marked by peace and prosperity. SYNONYMS: prosperous, golden. USAGE: We spent a few halcyon years in New York before the stock market crashed.

Von Trott was a German anti-fascist who, as a lawyer and diplomat, traveled to London, Washington DC, and China to seek help resisting the Nazi regime. In Germany, he joined the Nazi party in order to collect inside information about its activities, while simultaneously serving as a foreign policy advisor to the Kreisau Circle, a clandestine group of intellectuals that was planning the overthrow of the Nazi regime. Von Trott was hanged in August 1944 after a Nazi court found him guilty of what?

Faced with widespread evidence of political espionage and other illegal activities on the part of his administration, President Nixon resigned in order to avoid facing impeachment. In addition to the governmental upheaval that resulted from the so-called Watergate Affair, the scandal provoked widespread loss of confidence in public officials. In 2005, "Deep Throat," the secret source who leaked information about the scandal to The Washington Post, came forward. Who was "Deep Throat?"

Cassatt was an American figure painter and etcher. As a young art student, she moved to Paris, where she was inspired by the work of Edgar Degas. She was an active member of the impressionist circle until she quit painting to care for ailing family members. She resumed painting in the mid-1880s, but by 1886, she no longer identified with any school. Nearly one-third of Cassatt's paintings are intimate depictions of mother and child. What cause did she take up after cataracts ruined her vision?