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The largest horde this Mongol leader who died in 1227 ever assembled was less than 240,000 men |
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He played Tony Spampatta in the 1991 TV movie "N.Y.P.D. Mounted" before getting "Blue" in '93 |
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The charcoal used in barbecues is usually sold in this form, a French diminutive |
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3-letter word for any of the small coral islets off the tip of Florida |
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An early 1730s work by Canaletto shows this canal city's "Quay of the Piazzetta" |
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Poetic title of M. Scott Peck's 1978 self-help bestseller |
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On Nov. 8, 2004 U.S. & Iraqi forces entered this Sunni city of 300,000 beginning a fierce battle |
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Heeey maaan, he was soooo groovy playing Billy in "Easy Rider", man |
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A W-shaped rack was created & named for these "anatomical" taste treats |
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From the French for "throat", it's a narrow steep-walled canyon |
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In "The Story of Painting" Sister Wendy says, "He is much more than a painter of the fair and fat" |
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2-word descriptive term for an island group of the eastern West Indies |
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In 774 this Frank took the crown of Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards |
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You could say the blushing bride seen here was on the rebound |
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In 1793 the laying of the cornerstone of this D.C. building was celebrated by barbecuing a 500-pound ox |
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5-letter term for a territory ruled by a duke |
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There are 2 versions of John Singleton Copley's "Watson and" this sea predator in U.S. galleries |
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She explored the inner workings of feminine identity in novels like "The Golden Notebook" |
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It declared its independence in January of 1822 at Epidauros but still had to fight for 7 years |
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This Oakland A's Hall of Famer is the only pitcher with 100 complete games & 100 saves (& he threw a no-hitter too!) |
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George Stephen invented the Weber grill using the bottom of one of these items found in harbors |
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This term for an administrative district in England has largely been replaced by county |
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For your information, no, your six-year-old could not make paintings just like this man's 1952 "Convergence" |
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His company went bankrupt trying to build the Panama Canal |
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A participant in WWI's First Battle of the Marne was the BEF, short for this |
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This actor can do it all; he can sell you insurance as the Allstate spokesman, or run the country as president on "24" |
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Hardwoods work best for this type of cooking that some purists call the only real type of barbecue |
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It's a bay formed by a bend in a coastline, like the one "of Benin" |
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Victorine Meurent, his favorite model, is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe" |
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