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DEFINITION: (noun) A singer of popular ballads. SYNONYMS: crooner. USAGE: The balladeer sang about the tragic fate of a couple in love.

On Sunday, the Lebanese army took control of the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp following a 3 month standoff with militants from the Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah Islam faction. The camp's approximately 30,000 refugee inhabitants were forced to flee the violence, which left at least 222 militants, 163 Lebanese soldiers, and 20 civilians dead. The Lebanese military also seized a sizeable cache of weapons and ammunition, including machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and explosives, during the operation.

In 1964, Prometheus, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, was the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. That year, a graduate student cut down the 5,000- year-old tree to examine its ring growth patterns and derive information about the climate. It is unclear who suggested that Prometheus be cut down, why the action was deemed necessary, and whether its impact was fully understood at the time. Methuselah is currently the oldest known living tree; how old is it?