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DEFINITION: (noun) A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing. SYNONYMS: thole, tholepin, peg, pin, oarlock. USAGE: It was that dull kind of a regular sound that comes from oars working in rowlocks when it's a still night.

Agnesi was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher. Credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus, she was a child prodigy. When she was 9, she composed and delivered an hour-long speech in Latin to an academic gathering; she spoke of women's right to education. By the age of 13, she was fluent in at least 7 languages. At age 20, however, she withdrew from society, avoiding all social interaction. She was the 2nd woman to be appointed what?

Results of a new study indicate that people who drink 1 or more soft drinks per day have a higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors strongly linked to heart disease. Surprisingly, risk of metabolic syndrome decreased only slightly among diet soda drinkers, and remained 44% higher than for those who do not drink soda daily. The American Heart Association has noted that the results do not mean that soft drinks cause metabolic syndrome, only that there is a link between the two.