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This one of the simple machines can be made by using a wheel & a rope |
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He played fictional hero Perry Mason off & on from 1957 until his death in 1993 |
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He lost the presidency by a 71-68 electoral vote count, so he settled for the VP slot in 1796 |
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In hunting, dogs might chase their quarry up a tree, sometimes the dogs didn't choose the right tree |
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It's the term for a type of French bread baked into a long, cylindrical loaf with a crisp crust & a chewy inside |
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The tattered, unshaven hobo type of this performer caught on in American circuses |
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Manufacturers of fireworks use barium to give off a green color & sodium to produce this color |
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Christopher Plummer narrated a 1993 Family Channel series about this Paris schoolgirl |
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Speaking at Columbia Law School's 2000 commencement, he joked that he invented Lexis-Nexis |
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Sometimes a flintlock musket's fuse, called a pan, would flare up without firing the gun |
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Sourdough bread uses a special yeast one of these as the leavener |
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In the 1880s, circus owner Adam Forepaugh tried to compete with P.T. Barnum, who had this elephant as an attraction |
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Inhaling & exhaling result from the contraction of this muscle at the floor of the chest cavity |
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Pamela Sue Martin, who played this sleuth, left her show when it was merged with the Hardy Boys' |
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He found the press quite taxing, calling them "Nattering nabobs of negativism" |
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On early warships, sailors & their wives slept between the cannons; the wives gave birth there as well |
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Pumpernickel often gets its flavor from this brownish-black liquid made when sugar is refined |
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The Cristiani Brothers Circus specialized in this equestrian style that didn't saddle them with extra props |
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In 1979 this James Jones novel was a miniseries with Steve Railsback in Montgomery Clift's movie role |
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He only served 6 months as VP before he took the presidential oath of office in Buffalo |
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Deciphering hidden writing within a paragraph that couldn't be seen unless the paper was treated |
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It's the German word for rusk, bread that is baked twice to make it crisp |
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Franco Knie, manager & elephant trainer of Circus Knie, has been romancing this Monaco princess |
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The elements erbium, terbium, ytterbium & yttrium are named for the town of Ytterby in this country |
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This 1994 miniseries based on a Stephen King book depicts the aftermath of a devastating plague |
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This ex-VP took the presidential oath of office from Judge Sarah Hughes, the first woman to administer it |
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A boxing technique where you move away so you won't feel the full force when a punch lands |
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A circus formed in the 1930s combined the names of the Cole Brothers & this famous circus figure seen here |
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