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DEFINITION: (noun) A person who operates a farm. SYNONYMS: farmer, granger, sodbuster. USAGE: The husbandman will not make his own plough or mattock, or other implements of agriculture, if they are to be good for anything.

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising 8 private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern US. The term became ubiquitous with the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954, and it is now also commonly used to refer to those schools considered as a group. The Ivy League universities are also referred to as the Ancient Eight, and all but one of them are older than the American Revolution; which one was founded after the Civil War?

In 1996, Pope John Paul II changed Vatican procedure to allow an absolute majority of cardinals to elect the next pope if, after 33 rounds of balloting, they remain deadlocked. Pope Benedict XVI has now issued an executive order, called a motu proprio, which restores the Vatican tradition requiring 2/3 of the cardinals in a conclave to agree on the new pontiff. In the 13th c, a deadlocked papal election lasted 3 years, though no conclave has lasted more than 5 days in the past 100 years.