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DEFINITION: (noun) A game of cards for two to four persons, played with a special deck of 48 cards, with points being scored by taking tricks and forming certain combinations. SYNONYMS: bezique, penuchle, pinocle. USAGE: Here, when wordy discussions on all subjects under the sun were not being waged, Billy played at cut-throat Pedro, horrible fives, bridge, and pinochle.

The Jardin des Plantes, the main botanical garden in France, is situated on the left bank of the river Seine and covers 28 hectares (280,000 m²). The garden is home to the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France's museum of natural history, as well as an elaborate rose garden, numerous hothouses, and an alpine garden that features 3,000 different species. The Jardin des Plantes, originally called the Jardin du Roi, was first planted in 1626 by Louis XIII's physician. What was its purpose?

Ignatius was a Spanish churchman and founder of the Jesuits, a religious order noted for its tradition of learning, science, and foreign missionary work. He was of noble birth but left his courtly life to enter the army and was wounded defending the town of Pamplona. While recovering, he was converted through reading a life of Jesus; thereafter, he devoted his life to a spirituality characterized by emphasis on human initiative. His Spiritual Exercises are grouped according to what?

US scientists said they have discovered a new, potentially deadly strain of bacteria in an American woman who, after traveling across Peru for 3 weeks, began suffering from symptoms similar to typhoid fever or malaria. Named Bartonella rochalimae, the new species is a close relative of a microbe that sickened thousands of soldiers during WWI with what became known as trench fever, spread through body lice.