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DEFINITION: (noun) The supposed development of living organisms from nonliving matter. SYNONYMS: spontaneous generation, autogenesis, autogeny. USAGE: Early notions of abiogenesis, now considered incorrect, held that living organisms generate from decaying organic substances, like maggots from meat.

Goldwyn was a Polish-born American film producer. He founded his own film company, which later merged with others to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and in 1946, he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Goldwyn is said to have had an explosive temper that left him with few close friends. When a former colleague died, Goldwyn allegedly declared, "The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead." Whose passing prompted this statement?

Leo Frank was a Jewish American factory manager who was accused of raping and murdering his employee, 12-year-old Mary Phagan. Frank was convicted, despite evidence incriminating a janitor at the factory, but his death sentence was commuted when further evidence called his guilt into question. A group with ties to the Ku Klux Klan then kidnapped and lynched Frank in a highly publicized event that turned the spotlight on anti-Semitism in the US and led to the founding of what organization?

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

An arboretum is a botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and other woody plants that are cultivated for scientific, educational, and ornamental purposes. The plants are labeled with their common and scientific names, and they are arranged in cultural or habitat groups, such as tropical, desert, and aquatic. The first arboretum to be designed and planted was the Arboretum Trsteno, near Dubrovnik in Croatia. What arboretum in England helped inspire the design for New York City's Central Park?