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After King John's death, altered forms of this document issued in 1216, 1217 & 1225 |
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William Langer believes this famous line of March 15, 44 B.C. may have been said to Decimus, not Marcus |
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Haydn & Mozart did it from the keyboard, Beethoven from a podium in front of the orchestra |
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Anais Nin wrote the preface to the first edition of his "Tropic of Cancer" |
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Among the people He baptized in the river was Jesus |
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A May 29, 1919 solar eclipse observed in the Gulf of Guinea confirmed his general theory of relativity |
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In 1760 King George II became the last sovereign buried at this London church |
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Kim Jae Kyu, head of this country's CIA, killed its President Park Chung Hee in 1979 |
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This Stravinsky ballet, his 1st, was based on the legend of the Zhar-Ptitsa, a creature with wings of flame |
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Pierre Boulle wrote this 1952 novel about British P.O.W.s building a bridge for the Japanese |
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Famous folk song that includes "Jordan's river is deep and wide, hallelujah" |
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His "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex" said that humans & apes had a common ancestor |
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The Ceremony of the Keys has been performed at this London landmark for more than 600 years |
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In 1956 Rigoberto Lopez Perez assassinated this country's President Anastasio Somoza Garcia |
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This French composer is known for his "Rapsodie Espagnole", a tune that'll Bolero you over |
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It's the middle name of the "Fool for Love" playwright born Samuel Rogers |
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By the time the Jordan reaches this sea, it drops almost 1300 feet below sea level |
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When geneticist Johann Mendel became a monk in 1843, he took this first name |
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In 1360 the Treaty of Bretigny brought a period of peace during this war |
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This king of Saudi Arabia was killed by his nephew March 25, 1975 |
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Directors take note: For the final movement of his "The Planets", you'll need to hire an all-female choir |
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One of the famous works by this British author is "The Loved One", about funerals in California |
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This sea through which the river passes is also called the Sea of Tiberias, for a city on its shore |
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This Italian physicist was at the core of uranium research at Columbia University in 1939 |
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In 1085 William I commissioned this "book", a survey of England's holy landings |
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He was kidnapped by the Red Brigades March 16, 1978 & found shot to death May 9, 1978 |
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The Chicago Opera commissioned this Russian's "The Love of Three Oranges" |
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This 1963 book grew out of Farley Mowat's study of the eating habits of Northern Canadian wolves |
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Besides Jordan, 2 of the other 3 countries that share the river's waters |
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In 1890 he became professor of physiology at the Imperial Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia |
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