World of Knowledge

According to a poll of 11,000 Americans, 84 percent of vegetarians and vegans return to eating meat.

Born in 1844, Edmonia Lewis became one of the first African American artists to earn international acclaim. She sculpted marble busts of abolitionists like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Horace Greeley, and her patrons included President Ulysses S. Grant.

The office cubicle was invented by Robert Propst in 1968. His original design was called the Action Office System and provided “a social kind of privacy” for the worker.

The Scots have a word for that panicky hesitation you get when you can’t remember someone’s name: tartle.

When Angelfire launched in the mid-1990s, it offered medical transcription services as well as web-building tools.