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Between 1850 & 1864, the Taiping Rebellion claimed an estimated 20,000,000 lives in this country |
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This city's famous French Quarter is also called the Vieux Carre, which means "old square" |
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She earned an Oscar nomination for "Agnes Of God"; sis Jennifer Tilly earned one for "Bullets Over Broadway" |
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Exiled from the USSR in 1929, he lived in Turkey, France & Norway before finding asylum in Mexico |
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Really big, like a Burger King burger |
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The 1929 Lateran Treaty recognized the inherent sovereignty of this holy state |
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When it's coffee harvest time on this island, it's time for the Miss Kona Coffee Contest |
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Barbra Streisand starred as Fanny Brice in these 2 movies, filmed 7 years apart |
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Despite his name, this "Native Son" author was on the left as a Communist Party member from 1932 to 1944 |
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In geometry, it's a plane figure with 6 sides & 6 angles |
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Pocahontas was married to this man for just 3 years before her death in 1617 |
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A 45-ton statue of a bull named Albert decorates the Iowa town named for this 19th century bird artist |
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Seen here, working at mission control, he's also played an astronaut: |
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Movie director Edward Dmytryk, one of this numerical group, later named other Communists before Congress |
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Book bag for baseball pitcher Paige |
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We must confess, in 1161 this English king was made a saint |
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From 1854 to 1900 these 2 cities served as co-capitals of Rhode Island |
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Sophia Loren did her own singing when she played Aldonza in this movie musical |
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In Twyla Tharp's ballet "Jump Start", dancers jump around to music by this member of the Marsalis family |
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This 1970s prime minister who made parts of Cambodia killing fields made more grim headlines in 1997 |
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In 1917 the U.S. acquired the U.S. Virgin Islands for $25 million from this country |
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This president & his wife are buried on the grounds of their 18th century Virginia estate, Montpelier |
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Robert Mitchum & Gregory Peck, the original stars of this '62 thriller, had cameo roles in the '91 remake |
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In Matthew Bourne's update of this classic 1877 ballet, the leading female role is played by a man: |
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Joe Slovo led South Africa's Communist Party & this anti-apartheid party's military wing |
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From the French for chest of drawers, it's all the clothes, bedding & accessories that a newborn needs |
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