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The triple point is the temperature and pressure at which these three phases of a substance co-exist |
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John Speke was the first European to reach this lake and identify it as the source of the Nile |
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This country's highest mountain is Rysy peak, about 60 miles south of Krakow |
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This "Fahrenheit 451" author is descended from a woman who was tried for witchcraft in Salem |
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The great "Dionysia" was this ancient civilization's most important drama festival |
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Gregory I's name lives on in this musical form |
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This is the chemical formula for dry ice |
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A year after his death, one of his ships completed the first around-the-world voyage |
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Not only does Alaska have this, the highest U.S. peak, it has the next 15 tallest, too |
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Literary sisters whose elder sisters, Maria & Elizabeth, died at ages 11 & 10 respectively |
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Strindberg set "Miss Julie" in the kitchen of a manor house in this, his native country |
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Gregory XIII is famous for his revision of this in 1582 |
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Neoprene, a synthetic form of this material, is more resistant to oil than the natural type |
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U.S. explorer Charles Wilkes was the first to designate this a continent, & has a land there named for him |
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In 1980, two Japanese climbers became the first to scale it from the north |
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His first book, "Betty Zane", was a historical novel about one of his ancestors |
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This acting teacher was the artistic director of New York City's Actors Studio from 1948 until 1982, the year he died |
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Not even a member of the priesthood, Gregory X was on one of these with Edward I when elected |
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This acid is the electrolyte in a lead-acid battery |
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In 1768 he led an expedition to Tahiti, where astronomers studied the transit of Venus across the sun |
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Lord Byron called this peak on the French-Italian border "The Monarch of Mountains" |
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Lawrence Housman, who wrote the play "Victoria Regina", was this poet's brother |
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"Six Characters in Search of an Author" was written in this language |
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In September 1376, Gregory XI moved the papacy from this city back to Rome |
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It's the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages |
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In 1542 after searching for the seven golden cities of Cibola, he returned to Mexico disappointed |
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Among the ranges in this Central American country are the Tabasalu, San Blas, & Darien mountains |
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This "Joseph Andrews" author wrote a preface to his sister Sarah's novel, "The Adventures of David Simple" |
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The William Inge play in which Lola dreams that her little white puppy is never coming back |
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Gregory XV canonized Teresa of Avila and this man of Loyola, among others |
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