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This British prime minister was called "The Grocer's Daughter" |
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His only Nobel Prize was for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, not relativity |
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Of "The Bride", "The Groom" or "The Best Man", the one that's a play by Gore Vidal |
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Established in 1944, it's a nonprofit fund-raising association of 41 educational institutions |
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In his "Advice to a Young Tradesman", he said, "Remember that time is money" |
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This opera set in Nagasaki was first performed in Italian in Milan in 1904 |
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This Egyptian president was called "Nasser's Poodle" before succeeding him |
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Our main source of knowledge of Greek astronomy is his "Almagest", completed in the 2nd century |
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Pirandello play in which the father says, "We are here in search of an author" |
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He was killed in 1965, months after founding the Organization of Afro-American Unity |
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Addressing the parliament, Louis XIV reportedly said, "L'Etat c'est moi", which means this |
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Common translation of the Wagner title "Der Fliegende Hollander" |
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As a ferry operator, this future railroad magnate was dubbed "The Commodore" |
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The son of anthropologists Louis & Mary, he found an almost complete homo erectus skeleton in 1984 |
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The ancient Roman playwright Terence based all his comedies on plays from this country |
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The bus boycott Martin L. King, Jr. began over the treatment of Rosa Parks lasted over a year in this city |
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Speaking before the Continental Congress, Patrick Henry said, "I am not a Virginian, but" this |
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In "La Boheme" Rodolfo lights her fire; they meet when she asks him to light her candle |
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General Joe Stilwell disdainfully called this generalissimo "Peanut" |
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A visit to the Keeling Islands led to his 1842 work "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs" |
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Late southern playwright who co-wrote "You Touched Me!", a comedy based on a story by D.H. Lawrence |
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He's the first elected black governor in the U.S. |
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In "The Rights of Man" he wrote, "My country is the world and my religion is to do good" |
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He wrote the libretto for Dessau's "The Trial of Lucullus" & Weill's "The Threepenny Opera" |
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This second lord protector of England was called "Queen Dick" for his timidity |
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In 1848 this astronomer became the 1st woman member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
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Spanish playwright who set his 1936 play in "The House of Bernarda Alba" |
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A 1950 Ebony cover called this U.N. statesman "America's Most-Honored Negro" |
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At the Battle of Copenhagen he said, "I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes" |
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"The Mother Of Us All", by Virgil Thomson & Gertrude Stein, is about this American feminist |
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