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An airliner with just over 100 people on board crashed almost immediately after takeoff from Abuja airport in Nigeria on Sunday. Nine people are believed to have survived. Among the dead was Muhammadu Maccido, regarded as the spiritual leader of Nigeria 's Muslims. This was the third deadly crash of a passenger plane in less than a year in Nigeria, which is known for its unsafe air industry.

DEFINITION: (adj.) Lacking knowledge or awareness; unaware. SYNONYMS: unaware. USAGE: He was incognizant of the new political situation and needed his brother to brief him on the details.

Angelo Siciliano, better known as "Charles Atlas," was dubbed "The World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a NYC contest in 1922. Siciliano had been a small and weak child, but, inspired by the strength of a tiger at the zoo, he built up his endurance by working muscle groups against one another. Atlas went on to achieve phenomenal success marketing his "dynamic tension" fitness methods in the place of weight training. Atlas' physical measurements are buried in a time capsule where?

The "Rumble in the Jungle" pitted Muhammad Ali against heavyweight champion George Foreman in Zaire, Africa. The match is remembered for the sweltering heat and for Ali's incredible performance in regaining the heavyweight title. Ali, surrounded by spellbound fans, used a strategy later dubbed the “rope-a-dope” technique to tire Foreman before winning in the 8th round. This fight was Don King's first venture as a professional boxing promoter. What musical acts were booked for the event?

Narcolepsy is a disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable, though often brief, attacks of sleep, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations. In narcolepsy, the brain does not pass through the normal stages of dozing and deep sleep but goes directly into rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. As a result, nighttime sleep does not include much deep sleep, so the brain tries to "catch up" during the day. What two tests are commonly used in diagnosing narcolepsy?