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World production of this is now 84 million barrels a day, up about 10 million barrels from 1997 |
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Bob Cousy's 14 & John Havlicek's 17 were honored by this storied franchise |
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In a 1917 speech in Russia, he said, "We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist Order" |
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From 1971 to 1996, Carl Sagan was a professor at this Ithaca, New York Ivy League school |
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In 1960, this number, the GDP, for the U.S. was $526 billion; in 1970, almost twice that |
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The moveable barrier where a horse race begins |
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With a pair of dice, the chances of throwing one of these 2 numerical sums are one in 36 |
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This team retired Ray Nitschke's 66 & Reggie White's 92 |
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Wanting to Westernize Russia, Czar Peter the Great moved the capital west to this city in 1712 |
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It was Sagan's award-winning PBS TV show about the universe |
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In 1980 Jimmy Carter signed a bill giving this auto company $1.5 billion in loan guarantees |
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Luminous celestial object in Matthew that led the Magi to the Baby Jesus |
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Due partly to a policy of its govt., in 2005 this country led the world in foreign babies adopted by Americans |
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Willie Stargell's No. 8 will be worn by no other player on this team |
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In the 1854 Battle of Inkerman during this war, the Russians attacked the British during a dense morning fog |
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Sagan penned the novel upon which this Jodie Foster film was based, though he didn't live to see the film released |
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Begun in 1960, the construction of this "high" dam on the Nile cost about $1 billion |
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Any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea |
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For a plane traveling 725 mph at 40,000 feet, this number is 1.1 |
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This team for which Gordie Howe played 25 seasons retired his number 9 |
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Claiming to be the son of Ivan IV, the pretender to the Russian throne in 1604 was known as the False this |
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Sagan was co-author of the first scientific paper to predict that this weather condition would follow atomic war |
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It's used to indicate the speed of a computer operation; one billion of them make up a second |
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It's estimated that during WWII, the European edition of this U.S. military newspaper topped a million in circulation |
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The U.N. estimates there are about 8.4 million of these, including 1.9 million from Afghanistan |
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This team for which Bobby Hull played 15 seasons retired his number 9 |
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Boris Godunov's death in 1605 brought on the age in Russian history known as the "Time of" these |
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Sagan was among the first to suggest that Jupiter's moon Europa might have this & that it might contain life |
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Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations |
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The 30-year-old Quaker first mate of the Pequod |
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