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MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS |
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Early 1800s: Catastrophism says big events, like this one in Genesis 7, shaped the Earth & its life |
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Gottfried Silbermann pulled out all the stops building this for Dresden's Katholische Hofkirche |
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On September 17, 1962 the parents of this first moonwalker appeared on an episode of "I've Got A Secret" |
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Name of the famous home that's depicted on the back of our current 5-cent coin |
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This seat of Jackson County, Missouri was the home of Harry Truman |
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1751: Axel Cronstedt discovers this -- the element, in a mineral, not the coin in his pants pocket |
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Antonio de Torres of 19th century Granada is responsible for the modern version of this instrument |
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Game show on which you heard Richard Dawson say, "Our survey said..." |
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His "Body lies a-mouldering in the grave" near his farmhouse in Lake Placid, New York |
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The rate of this in Gambia is about 60 percent |
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Before moving to Missouri, this pro football team was known as the Dallas Texans |
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2001: Researchers produce pulses of this that last 650 billionths of a billionth of a second |
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The instrument (violin) that's seen here, just before it was auctioned off for $1.3 million, was made by him |
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In 1978 Billy Crystal cleared all 6 categories in a record 26 sec. on the $20,000 version of this Dick Clark show |
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Beauvoir, his last home in Biloxi, is now operated by the United Sons of Confederate Veterans |
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Spock knows it means something that makes no rational sense |
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The only national monument in Missouri is the birthplace of this botanist, seen here |
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4th century B.C.: Aristotle writes, "It is agreed that there are...only two solids, the pyramid and" this geometric one |
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Theobald Boehm, a player of this instrument, enlarged its finger holes & made it metal instead of wood |
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Once contestants reached $8,000 on this '50s show, they answered questions from the Revlon isolation booth |
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After Frederick Pabst's death, his 37-room mansion became home to the archbishops of this city |
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Almost impossible to read |
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You're barking up the right tree if you know this is Missouri's state tree |
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1855: Matthew Maury publishes the first textbook of this science, "Physical Geography of the Sea" |
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In 1950 music stand maker Katsumi Yanagisawa started making these instruments under the Pearl brand name |
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Future playwright Neil Simon was a stunt writer & James Dean a stunt tester for this Bud Collyer game show |
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A window of The Old Manse in Concord, Mass. still bears the diamond-engraved signatures of this author & his wife |
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Another name for a magician |
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The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union with this status |
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