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His play, "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial", was based on his own novel, "The Caine Mutiny" |
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Before taking power, he was editor of the Socialist paper Avanti! |
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A projecting support, whether or not it's "flying" |
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In his 80th year, the Paris street where he lived was renamed for this "Hunchback of Notre Dame" author |
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German physicist who 1st used mercury in thermometers & invented a temperature scale |
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In mathematics they can be classified as real, irrational, or imaginary |
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In 1978 Vincent Price starred in a 1-man show as this "Earnest" playwright |
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Of about 200, 700 or 1,200 years, length of time Ireland was ruled by England |
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In architecture, it can be suspended over a statue; in furniture, it hangs above your bed |
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English tale of Mrs. Wickett & her boarder, an old schoolmaster from Brookfield Boys School |
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Son of a baron, he led teams that developed the V-2 rocket & launched the 1st U.S. satellite |
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It's also been called scrivener's palsy |
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This play about Henry II & the Archbishop of Canterbury is subtitled "The Honor of God" |
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He issued the October Manifesto during the 1905 revolution, but its promises went unfulfilled |
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Found in classical architecture, a caryatid is a column shaped like this |
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Dickens' unfinished last novel, he carried its solution to his grave |
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This Persian poet wrote an algebra book & reformed the Muslim calendar |
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To celebrate its 60th anniversary, this newspaper for schoolkids put out a retrospective book |
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Susan Strasberg played the leading role in the original 1955 production of this play set in Amsterdam |
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When England's Queen Anne died, this German became king because he was a great grandson of James I |
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Legend says the architect of this church on Red Square was blinded so he couldn't create another one |
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The military & the clergy are represented by the 2 colors in the title of this book by Stendhal |
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The "clicking" device that detects energetic subatomic particles is named for him |
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Printing with this style of letters began in Venice about 1500 |
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The title character of this "maternal" Bertolt Brecht drama has a son named Swiss Cheese |
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At the height of this war in 1870, some Frenchmen were so hungry they ate animals from the Paris Zoo |
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The oldest of the Greek classical orders, it featured the simplest capitals on the columns |
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At the end of this Steinbeck novel, Danny's friends burn his house as a tribute to him |
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This Englishman is considered the most original & influential thinker in the history of science |
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The subtitle of this 1955 book by Rudolf Flesch is "& What You Can Do About It" |
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