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HIPPOCRATES' MEDICAL GUIDE |
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As well as surveyors, Mason & Dixon had this profession, Mason having worked at the Greenwich Observatory |
Astronomers
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From the Late Latin for "hooded cloak", it's the popular style of hat seen here |
Beret
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According to Hippocrates, it's the most healthy & least mortal of the 4 seasons |
(T: What is summer?)
spring
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These bugs of the family Lampyridae are all aglow in summer |
Fireflies/lightning bugs
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In the most common form of U.S. city government, a council is balanced by this executive |
Mayor
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Defoe's dogs |
Daniel's spaniels
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As the boundary between slave & free states, the line extended along this river to the Mississippi |
Ohio River
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Sikh & you shall find the name of this headcovering |
Turban
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Hippocrates said sneezing cures these; medical science today advises that you breathe in a bag |
Hiccups
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It's hard to see just how many legs this bug has since it only comes out at night |
Centipede
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Instead of a "standing" one, the House & Senate each have a "select" one on intelligence |
Committee
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R.L.'s evergreens |
Stine's pines
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The line settled a dispute between Maryland's Calverts & this family that ran the colony to the north |
Penn
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This hat shares its name with U.S. Forest Service personnel |
Ranger hat
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A restricted one of these is bad, so don't eat just grapefruit or rutabagas |
Diet
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Different types of this insect transmit dengue fever as well as malaria |
Mosquito
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It's about 50% in U.S. national elections, 30 points lower than in western Europe |
(T: What is the voting average?)
Voter turnout
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Orwell's ravines |
George's gorges
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With remarkable accuracy, Mason & Dixon set the line at 39 degrees 43'17.6" of this |
Latitude
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They're the friendly religious group this hat is named for |
Quakers (Society of Friends)
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Good old Hippocrates believed that a woman cannot become this, able to use both hands equally |
Ambidextrous
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Social wasps include hornets & these "well dressed" members, Vespula maculifrons |
Yellow jackets
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Wisconsin introduced this "fare" game that made AFDC recipients get jobs |
["AFDC" is "Aid to Families with Dependent Children".] (Trish: What is welfare?)
Workfare
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Vidal's boutiques |
Gore's stores
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The term "Mason & Dixon's Line" was first used in the debate leading to this 1820 compromise |
Missouri Compromise
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This fur hat's name may come from a strict headmaster at England's Westminster School |
Busby
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Hippocrates taught that cold sweats occuring with an acute one of these indicates death |
Fever
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You'll find this wingless pest with a metallic name in many books; not as an entry, but as a feeder |
(M: What is a gold bug?)
Silverfish
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Constitutional amendment that prohibits privacy by banning "unreasonable searches and seizures" |
Fourth Amendment
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Dorothy's felt-tipped pens |
Parker's markers
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