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MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES |
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He's revered as China's supreme sage & foremost teacher |
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In 1988 this French oceanographer received 1 of 15 Nat'l Geographic Society Centennial Awards |
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The Spaniards named this Central American nation for Nicarao, an Indian leader |
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Aurora Greenway is General Hector Scott's lover in Larry McMurtry's "Terms of" this |
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The vertical difference between the sides of one of these crustal fractures is called the throw |
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Wild celebrations are called Bacchanal after the festivals that honored this wine god |
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Water was Elizabeth I's playful nickname for this court favorite |
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In 1995 the American Film Institute honored this "E.T." director with its Life Achievement Award |
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The name of this Alpine peak is French for "white mountain" |
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Zofia Zawistowska, an Auschwitz survivor, is the heroine of this 1979 William Styron novel |
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Carbon monoxide causes death by displacing oxygen from this blood pigment |
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A sponge found in Asian waters is known as this Roman love goddess' "flower basket" |
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In 1456, 25 years too late, her sentence for heresy was revoked & annulled |
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For its publication of the Pentagon Papers, this newspaper won a 1972 Pulitzer Prize |
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It's Austria's chief river |
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Ursula & Gudrun Brangwen are featured in 2 of his novels, "The Rainbow" & "Women in Love" |
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In this type of exercise, muscles are contracted against resistance without movement of the joints |
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Inspiration may be called the Pierian Spring after a place sacred to these 9 goddesses of arts & learning |
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This Greek "Father of Medicine" may have left the island of Cos after he was blamed for a fire |
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This Chinese-American was awarded the 1976 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture |
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One of the world's largest diamond deposits is located at Orapa, Botswana, in this desert |
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This character is the head nurse in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
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Geodesy is a scientific branch concerned with the exact shape & size of this |
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Predatory or shrewish people may be compared to these monsters with women's heads & birds' bodies |
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During the Third Crusade, this red-bearded Holy Roman emperor drowned while trying to cross a river |
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Chief Justice 1953-1969, he was the first recipient of the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award |
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The mountain known as K2 is also called this after the Englishman who surveyed it c. 1860 |
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Offred is the title character of this Margaret Atwood tale |
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This is defined as the breakdown of glucose or other sugars by yeast or bacteria in the absence of oxygen |
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It was the formless abyss that existed before the world was created; now it's a synonym for total anarchy |
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