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YESTERDAY'S PERSONALITIES |
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In 1385 this "Canterbury Tales" poet was appointed Justice of the Peace for County Kent |
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Tiny Tim died in 1996 shortly after singing this novelty song, his only hit |
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As Belize was a British colony, it makes sense that St. John's is Central America's oldest cathedral of this church |
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The type of place that Willy Wonka ran, or that Scharffen Berger recently opened in Berkeley |
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This famous early 20th century entertainer seen here was hard to keep under lock and key |
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Meaning "around" or "about", it's often shortened to ca. |
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Collier's calls this American lyric poet a "typographical innovator" |
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In 1974 Terry Jacks had this mournful No. 1 hit, based on a tune by Jacques Brel |
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This, the country's national tree, appears on the flag of Belize (giving Diana Ross something to sing about) |
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At Vinterviken, Sweden, this family had a sulfuric acid as well as a dynamite factory |
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He's the controversial Olympian and professional athlete seen here |
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Cum means "with", so cum grano salis means "with" this |
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In "The Courtship of Miles Standish", she says, "If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning" |
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In their only hit, this group was "too sexy for my shirt" & "too sexy for Milan, New York & Japan" |
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Though it agreed to a de facto boundary in 2000, this country periodically claims territory in southern Belize |
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In 2002 a Guangzhou sporting goods company opened a factory to make 100,000 of these tables a year |
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Jerome Kern was inspired to write "Old Man River" for this man, seen here |
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In a Bible in Latin, this line would be "Fiat lux" |
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Petrarch's "Canzoniere" included 366 sonnets, one a day, to this lady with whom he was infatuated |
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Completes the title of Timbuk 3's hit "The Future's So Bright..." |
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You can see how your Saturn was made by touring the plant at Spring Hill in this state |
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We bet you know the name of this brotherly actor |
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Meaning "of whom", it now is used for the minimum number of people required for a meeting |
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In 1642 this English Cavalier poet was jailed for presenting a Royalist petition to Parliament |
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Yes sir! He had a No. 1 hit with the tender love song "Baby Got Back" |
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This famed Lockheed Martin plant in southern California is named for the bad smell on the original site |
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In 1930, this man became the last Emperor of his country |
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Copies of the book "Hannibal" should be marked caveat lector, meaning this |
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