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The Knights of St. John captured this island centuries after its colossal statue collapsed |
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The main types of this fuel are peat, lignite, bituminous & anthracite |
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His political career began in 1949 when he was elected to the Phoenix city council |
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Tennessee's lowest point, 182 feet above sea level, is at this river in the southwest corner |
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A short seller of a stock anticipates its price will do this |
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She wrote potboilers under the name A.N. Barnard before the success of "Little Women" |
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A knight carried a light wooded one of these covered with hide & painted with his coat of arms |
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One of the oldest marine biology laboratories is located at Woods Hole in this New England state |
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The first Whig governor of N.Y., he later turned Republican & purchased Alaska as Sec'y of State |
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This Scottish city on the River Clyde is one of the world's greatest shipbuilding centers |
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The time allowed for making payments on a loan after the due date is this "period" |
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He attended Harvard before writing the popular "Ragged Dick" rags-to-riches books |
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King Philip IV of this country coveted the wealth of the Knights Templars, so he persecuted them |
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While most vitamins are fat-soluble, vitamin C & this complex are water-soluble |
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In 1972 he became North Carolina's first Republican Senator in the 20th century |
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This island tied politically to Trinidad is famed for its Buccoo Reef, a popular scuba diving spot |
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The only Asian country among the Group of Seven, the finance ministers of 7 leading industrial powers |
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She is the author of such autobiographical works as "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" |
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Oliver was the sworn friend of this paladin who's celebrated in a famous "song" |
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The bacterium rhizobium, which lives in nodules on legume roots, "fixes" this element from air |
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After losing the 1936 Presidential election, this Kansas governor retired from nat'l politics |
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The name of this Romanian region means "beyond the forest" |
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A VAT is a value-added type of this levy |
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Once a rabbi, this humorous writer created the character of Tevye the milkman |
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Albert, the first bishop of this large Latvian city, founded the Knights of the Sword about 1200 |
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The lowest temperature yet reached was 2 billionths of a degree above zero on this scale |
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He became Interior Sec'y in 1989 after many years as the only Hispanic Republican in the House |
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David Livingstone was the 1st European to explore this river on which Victoria Falls is located |
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The opposite of caveat venditor, it means "let the buyer beware" |
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"Without Feathers", "Getting Even" & "Side Effects" are collections of his humorous pieces |
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