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"YX"? THAT'S FOR ME TO KNOW |
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This patriot's foundry made the State House dome watertight in 1802 by sheathing it with a thick layer of copper |
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The root of a plant of the mustard family, this veggie resembles a small beet |
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January 27: Jury selection begins in the trial of this woman entangled with the SLA |
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Black, especially a pure or jet black, like the stone |
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Time to attend the dancing class seen here painted by this 19th Century Frenchman |
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In 1893 Springfield produced the USA's 1st gasoline-powered car; in 1901, the USA's 1st factory for these 2-wheelers |
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"Mellow Gold", "Odelay", "Guero" |
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The Eureka is a type of this citris fruit |
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July 2: This country formally ceases to exist as it is absorbed by its northern counterpart |
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Come sail away with Charon on this river, a Greek word meaning "hateful" |
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More a Neo-Impressionist, he painted Pointillist seascapes at Normandy each summer between 1885 & 1889 |
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Nye Lubricants, founded in New Bedford in 1844, sold the USA's last bottle of this type of oil in 1978 |
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"Pablo Honey", "OK Computer", "Hail to the Thief" |
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The white type of this stalked veggie is grown underground; it can't produce chlorophyll & turn green |
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February 4th: The Winter Olympics heat up this Austrian city |
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Patrick Ewing should know this Greek goddess personifying night |
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His impression, "Sunrise", is seen here |
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This Western Mass. college, the state's oldest after Harvard, is a traditional rival of Amherst |
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"De Stijl", "Elephant", "Get Behind Me Satan" |
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The name of this tropical fruit comes from the resemblance of its flowers to symbols of the crucifixon |
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June 27: Palestinian terrorists hijack an Air France jetliner & force it to land in this Ugandan city |
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This small triangular bone consists of 4 rudimentary vertebrae |
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This American woman went Impressionist in the late 1870s & exhibited with the group in 1879 |
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"The Spirit of '76" hangs in this town whose name comes from the misidentification of granite as another rock |
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"Parachutes", "A Rush of Blood to the Head", "X&Y" |
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In French, a banana is banane; this tropical fruit is ananas |
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March 24: The Argentinean Military coups with delight as it overthrows this widow of Juan Peron |
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It's not a Seussian animal, it's this large African antelope, an endangered species |
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Seen here is this artist's 1870s work, "Madame Charpentier and Her Children" |
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