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THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK |
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In Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" we learn that this flower "by any other name would smell as sweet" |
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His first published song was 1909's "Marie from Sunny Italy"; later ones include "Cheek to Cheek" & "Easter Parade" |
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A museum dedicated to this literary character is located, where else, but at "221B" Baker Street in London |
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Her career as a novelist dawned with "Dawn O'Hara"; "Show Boat" showed up later |
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"An Invitation to the White House" is a bestseller by this current senator |
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Meatpacking "Jungle" city plus burrowing rodent |
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The Italians call this flower girasole because its head turns to follow the light |
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This song complains, "Since my gal and I ain't together keeps raining all the time" |
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For nearly 4 centuries, what is now the Topkapi Palace Museum was the residence of this empire's sultans |
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Gom Gut & Plick et Plock were pseudonyms of this Inspector Maigret creator |
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Judy Biggert represents this state's 13th District, which includes parts of DuPage, Will & Cook counties |
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Thane of Cawdor plus birthplace of Jesus |
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It's believed that this flower's scientific name Papaver came from "pap" because its juice was used to make babies sleepy |
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Dorothy Fields, the most successful female theater lyricist of the 20th century, wrote the words to this classic |
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Appropriately, this vast Russian art museum houses the icon of St. Nicholas seen here |
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Hmm... he dedicated his 1820 poem "The Witch of Atlas" to his wife Mary |
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In 2003 Republican Lisa Murkowski took the oath of office as this state's sixth U.S. Senator since statehood |
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"Book"ish nickname of fictional young detective Leroy Brown plus the doctor he might see for a check-up |
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Known as a "fairy flower", this bloom of the genus Digitalis has a darker side; large does of it can be poisonous |
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The last song George Gershwin composed, its title is followed by the line "not for a year, but ever and a day" |
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The Vasamuseet in Stockholm houses one of the oldest complete examples of these, the Vasa |
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Lloyd Brown, once an inmate of this city's Alleghany County jail, based his novel "Iron City" on life there |
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Republican Barbara Cubin represents this state in the House all by herself |
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17-year migratory insect plus creamy egg-based dessert |
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Certain orchids, genus Cypripedium, are known by this feminine name, from their resemblance to delicate footwear |
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In "You're The Top", this American wrote, "But if this ditty is not so pretty, at least it'll tell you how great you are" |
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There are museums devoted to this writer in Nairobi, Kenya & in Rungstedlund, Denmark |
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"I shouldn't mind being a bride... if I could be one without having a husband", says Bathsheba in this Hardy novel |
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It's the last name of California Reps. Loretta & Linda, the first sisters in Congress |
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Kubla Khan's stately pleasure dome site plus a quilt |
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