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A 25 million-year-old fossil with sharp teeth found in Australia shows that ancestors of today's toothless blue whales were not all "gentle giants." The fossil is of an early type of baleen whale with sharp teeth that were about 3 cm (1.2 inches) long. It also had large eyes, apparently suited for hunting. Blue whales are the largest creatures ever to inhabit the earth. Whales evolved from land mammals, where their closest relative is the hippopotamus.

DEFINITION: (adj.) Feeding on plants, including shrubs and trees. SYNONYMS: plant-eating, phytophilous. USAGE: The dot moth is phytophagous, feeding on a wide variety of plants.

Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and philosopher, considered one of the world's greatest writers. He is perhaps most famous for his masterpieces, War and Peace, a vast prose epic of the Napoleonic invasion of 1812, and Anna Karenina, the tragedy of a woman's faith in romantic love. Tolstoy was an anarchist and disapproved of all organizations based on the premise of force, including the government and the Church. How many characters are there in the 365-chapter War and Peace?

King was a leading figure in the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s. His "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Considered one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory, it powerfully and eloquently expresses King's desire for a future in which blacks and whites can live harmoniously as equals. What political, cultural, and religious allusions can be found in the speech?

The Moulin Rouge, which means "red mill" in French, is a traditional cabaret located in the red-light district of Pigalle in Paris. It serves as a symbol of French culture and a bohemian influence on Western Europe. Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra performed there, and the cabaret was also the subject of many paintings by the post-impressionist painter Toulouse Lautrec. Which member of the Jackson family has performed at the Moulin Rouge?