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Copy Cat, the world's first cloned cat, had three kittens in September. Copycat was cloned in 2001 at Texas A&M University, which has cloned more species than any institution in the world, including cattle, swine, goats, horses and a deer. CC is not the first cloned cat to give birth. In New Orleans, two cloned wild African cats successfully mated to produce kittens.

DEFINITION: (noun) Cessation. SYNONYMS: cessation. USAGE: More than anything else in the world, my frayed and frazzled mind wanted surcease from weariness in the way it knew surcease would come.

Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of King Henry VIII and queen consort of England. When, after 18 years of marriage, Catherine bore no male heirs and only one daughter, Henry resolved to divorce her and marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn. When the Pope refused his request, Henry had Parliament pass the Act of Supremacy, repudiating Papal jurisdiction in England, making the king the head of the English church and beginning the English Reformation. Did Catherine accept the divorce?

Officially called the Ardennes Offensive, this major German counter-offensive on the Western Front during WWII was the largest land battle in the history of the US Army. Hitler planned to split the Allied line, enabling the German army to head north, capture Antwerp, and trap 4 Allied armies, thus ensuring a victory. An American force that held out at Bastogne, an attack on the German salient from the north, and what other circumstances led to the failure of the German counter-offensive?

Copy Cat, the world's first cloned cat, had three kittens in September. Copycat was cloned in 2001 at Texas A&M University, which has cloned more species than any institution in the world, including cattle, swine, goats, horses and a deer. CC is not the first cloned cat to give birth. In New Orleans, two cloned wild African cats successfully mated to produce kittens.

Quicksand is a hydrocolloid gel consisting of fine granular matter, clay, and saltwater that yields easily to weight or pressure. It can be formed when grainy soil is saturated by water flowing from below ground with enough pressure to separate and suspend the grains. Quicksand is not as dangerous as it appears to be in many movies, because the human body is much more buoyant in quicksand than water and tends to float in it. What region in England is notorious for its quicksand?