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The annual Leonid meteor shower could produce a strong outburst this weekend for residents of North America and Western Europe. A surge of activity is expected begin around 11:45 p.m. ET Saturday, and people in favorable locations could see up to 150 shooting stars per hour. The Leonids are bits of debris left behind by repeated passages through the inner solar system of the comet Tempel-Tuttle; each November, Earth crosses trails of this debris.

DEFINITION: (noun) A frame with legs, used to support pieces of wood being sawed. SYNONYMS: buck, horse, sawbuck. USAGE: While thus engaged they came to the edge of a wood, and the boy sat down to rest upon an old sawhorse that some woodcutter had left there.

In the wake of WWII, Japanese citizens were faced with significant economic shortages. Realizing the commercial potential of a cheap and efficient mode of transportation, Soichiro Honda founded the Honda Motor Co. and began selling small capacity motorcycles. By the 1970s, Honda was the largest motorcycle producer in the world. His company's clean-burning CVCC engine spurred an automotive revolution, and his cars won a large share of the US market. Who nicknamed Honda "the Japanese Henry Ford"?

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is a revolutionary group founded in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. It views itself as the philosophical heir to the movement started by Emiliano Zapata in the early 20th century under the slogan "land and liberty." It represents indigenous people and is committed to opposing policies that hurt the working poor, especially farmers. The Zapatistas broke onto the international scene the same day that what agreement became operational?

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio program broadcast live from Nashville, Tennessee. It is the oldest continuous radio program in the US, having been broadcast on WSM since November 28, 1925. The featured performer on the first show was Uncle Jimmy Thompson, a fiddler who was then 77 years old. In 1926, Uncle Dave Macon, a Tennessee banjo player, became the program's first real star. What was the Opry's original name, and why did it change?