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DEFINITION: (adj.) Unbroken. Used of sleep. SYNONYMS: profound, sound, heavy. USAGE: He fell into a deep, wakeless sleep.

Christian III was king of Denmark and Norway from 1534–59. Early in his reign, he allied with Gustavus I of Sweden to defeat the German city of Lübeck in 1536. That victory broke the power of the Hanseatic League and made the Danish fleet supreme in northern waters. Christian established Lutheranism in Denmark and imposed it on Norway. Never elected king by the Norwegians, he declared Norway a dependency of Denmark. How old was Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg when Christian III married her?

The quagga, an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra, was once found in great numbers in parts of South Africa. It differed from other zebras in that its coat was sandy brown and its legs and tail whitish; only its head, neck, and shoulders were dark-striped. The quagga was hunted to extinction for its meat and hide, and to preserve feed for domestic stock. It was the first extinct creature to have its DNA studied. What did the study reveal?

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Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic lay order founded in 1928 in Spain, where it gained support from the government of Francisco Franco after the Spanish Civil War. With more than 80,000 members (roughly one-third are celibate and live communally), the movement seeks to promote traditional Catholic values and teachings and opposes liberalism and immorality. Why has Opus Dei been controversial among some Catholics?