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Scientists are lauding cranberries for their many health benefits. Research has shown that drinking cranberry juice can block urinary infections, increase HDL and reduce LDL, and kill H. pylori bacteria, which can cause stomach cancer and ulcers. In addition, a compound in cranberries prevents plaque formation on teeth, and extracts of chemicals in cranberries also appear to prevent breast cancer cells from multiplying in a test tube.

DEFINITION: (noun) Supreme blessedness or happiness. SYNONYMS: blessedness, beatification. USAGE: You have it in your power to raise two human beings from a state of actual suffering to such unspeakable beatitude as only generous, noble, self-forgetting love can give.

Pucci was an Italian fashion designer known for his signature use of bright colors and bold patterns. The son of an Italian noble, he was a member of the 1934 Italian Olympic ski team and received a skiing scholarship to Reed College. Pucci's fashion ambitions were encouraged when, in 1947, he was photographed by Harper's Bazaar wearing skiwear he had designed. In 1950, Pucci opened a couture house on the Isle of Capri. What famous designers that have worked for the Pucci brand?

The Nuremberg Trials, which took place in Nuremberg, Germany between 1945 and 1949, were a series of trials prosecuting Nazi officials for their participation in WWII and the Holocaust. The first and most famous of these trials, the Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, involved 24 of the most important leaders of Nazi Germany, 12 of whom were sentenced to death for crimes against humanity and other offenses. How were the death sentences carried out?

Swiss cheese is the generic name, in the US and Canada, for several related varieties of cheese that resemble the Swiss Emmentaler. The cheese's distinctive holes, which are called "eyes," are formed when the bacterium used to produce the cheese releases carbon dioxide gas that forms large bubbles. In general, the larger the eyes, the more pronounced the cheese's flavor. Swiss cheese without eyes is known as what?