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DEFINITION: (noun) A skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research. SYNONYMS: aquanaut. USAGE: The machinery on the ocean floor required constant maintenance, so the company had a team of oceanauts stationed nearby.

The Honeymooners, a short lived American sitcom based on sketches by Jackie Gleason, debuted in 1955 and was initially rated the #2 show in the US. The comedy, which starred Gleason and Audrey Meadows as a struggling working class couple, aired opposite the popular Perry Como Show and soon dropped 17 spots in the rankings. Though the show was cancelled after just 39 episodes, it has been aired for decades in syndication. What animated TV series did Gleason's show inspire?

Atatürk, or “Father Turk,” began his career in the service of the Ottoman military, but he soon became the Empire's greatest opponent and went on to lead the Turkish War of Independence. In the early 1920s, Atatürk led a military and political campaign that resulted in the Treaty of Lausanne and the founding of the Turkish republic. In 1923, Atatürk was elected the Republic's first president. He then set out on an energetic program of Westernization. How did he reform the Turkish language?

When sealed flasks of Salmonella typhimurium bacteria were sent into space on the Shuttle Atlantis for 12 days in 2006, the microbes became 3 times more lethal than their earthbound counterparts. Researchers discovered this after feeding mice identical strains of the bacteria, varying only whether the Salmonella had traveled to space or remained in similar temperature conditions on earth. After just under a month, 90% of the mice that had been infected with the space germs were dead, as compared to only 60% of the Earth bacteria group. Not only did the space Salmonella kill more mice more quickly, it also showed different genetic activity than non-traveling bacteria.