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Baghdad was locked down by an indefinite curfew on Friday after more than 200 people were killed in a wave of bombings in the Shiite bastion of Sadr City. The bombings triggered fears of widespread Shiite reprisals against Sunni Arabs as the two communities are engaged in a brutal sectarian conflict unleashed after an attack on a Shiite shrine in February.

DEFINITION: (noun) A person from the backwoods or a remote mountain area. SYNONYMS: bushwhacker. USAGE: The self-professed hillbilly knew every nook and cranny of the mountain forests and was an expert hunter and fisherman.

Burnett was an English-American playwright and author who is best known for her children's stories, particularly The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy. She turned to writing when she was 18 years old to support her four younger siblings after the death of her mother. Her stories were first printed in magazines, and her first novel was published in 1877. After the death of her son Lionel in 1890, Burnett became interested in what religious movement?

Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to sight the island of Tasmania, off the coast of Australia. He named it Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, after his sponsor, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies. In 1803, Great Britain took possession of the island and established a penal colony there. The indigenous population numbered about 5,000 at the time of colonization but were subsequently decimated, leaving only a few mixed-race survivors. Who was the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine?

Ticker-tape parades are held in downtown urban settings, allowing people in nearby office buildings to throw large amounts of shredded paper products onto the parade route, creating a snowstorm-like flurry. This type of parade is most closely associated with New York City, where it originated after a spontaneous celebration held in 1886 during the dedication of the Statue of Liberty. What did the term ticker-tape originally refer to?