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Israeli researchers at the University of Haifa discovered there's probably a genetic component to facial expressions. The research team compared 21 blind people along with about 30 of their sighted family members by filming as many as 43 expressions of various emotions such as happiness, sadness, and anger. In about 80% of the cases, family members could be accurately linked to individual participants based on their range of facial expressions.

DEFINITION: (adjective) Playfully jocular; humorous. SYNONYMS: bantering, tongue-in-cheek. USAGE: She was quite gullible and could never tell when his remarks were facetious or when he was being serious.

Mantle was an American baseball player who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. He played his entire 18-year Major League professional career for the NY Yankees, was a 16-time All-Star, and was named American League MVP 3 times. Mantle's 18 home runs in World Series play remains a record. Shortly before he died of liver cancer in 1995, Mantle said he wanted what written on his tombstone?

The Treaty of Ancón ended Peru's involvement in the late 19th century War of the Pacific, fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru. Victorious, Chile gained substantial mineral-rich territories, leaving Bolivia without access to the sea and annexing the former Peruvian province of Tarapacá. The loss of the war remains an emotional issue for many Bolivians who attribute their country's problems to its landlocked condition. What novel technology was employed during the war?

The Beta Israel, or "House of Israel," are Jews of Ethiopian origin. Long isolated from mainstream Judaism, they practice a form of the religion based on Jewish Scriptures and certain apocryphal books. In 1975, the Israeli rabbinate legally recognized them as Jews, and during the Ethiopian civil war, about 10,000 were airlifted to Israel in an effort to save them from persecution. A second airlift of more than 14,000 occurred in 1991. What were these secret operations called?