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Susanna the maid is the bride in this Mozart opera |
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In "A Day at the Races", while checking a pulse, he said, "Either he's dead or my watch has stopped" |
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Bishop Albert made this Latvian capital the HQ of the Knights of the Sword |
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Lava that flows far forms shield volcanoes; this island is made up of 5 of them, including Mauna Kea |
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Some yoga poses, or asanas, are named after animals, like the upward facing this, seen here |
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This 2-word phrase for a loyal & resourceful assistant comes from a character in a Daniel Defoe novel |
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The name of this Verdi opera means "The Fallen Woman" |
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This good sport said, "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours" |
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Newly independent at the time, Latvia joined this world body on Sept. 22, 1921 |
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One difference between wide & narrow craters is the presence of this to mix with magma & cause big steam explosions |
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Contrary to popular belief, only a minuscule fraction of this "weaving" school of yoga deals with sex |
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March Madness is in effect with this instrument named for a composer whose band first used it |
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Puccini's last opera, it's set in Peking |
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This director: "There are worse things" than death; "ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" |
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About 60% of Latvians are ethnically Latvian; this nationality makes up about a third of the population |
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Volcanoes can be formed by plumes of magma originating in this layer of the Earth below the crust |
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A tradition of yoga teaches that the cosmos was once filled with this 1-syllable mantra |
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Call the sheriff! This English shire is named for an Old Saxon landowner; the name means "Snot's home" |
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This 1892 Leoncavallo work has a play within the opera |
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This man who played Honore Lachaille in "Gigi" said, "I prefer old age to the alternative" |
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This is the sea on Latvia's west coast |
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In this island country, nearly 60% of eruptions, like those of Katla, occur under glacial ice |
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Yoga is mentioned in these ancient religious texts of India that date back 3,500 years |
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Seen here, it's named for a U.S. Army officer who designed it as an effective weapon for trench warfare |
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"La Bisbetica Dominata" was based on this Shakespeare play |
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This 19th c. journalist said, "Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate"; then he disappeared |
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In Latvia, male first names usually end in "S"; female first names, usually in this vowel |
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From words meaning "fire" & "broken", this type of flow of searing gas & rock swept down Mt. Pelee in 1902 |
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According to yoga philosophy, these "wheels" are the 7 main centers of spiritual energy in the human body |
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It's the financial "scheme" named for the Italian swindler who made it famous in the 1920s |
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