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Like many of her works, this author's 1946 novel "Pavilion of Women" 'takes place in China |
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It sounds like a farming term, but it's also an arm attached to a rudder head to help steer |
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The order Perissodactyla has 3 families: horses, tapirs & these giant horned beasts |
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From his 1788 will: "the philosophical instruments I have in Philadelphia I give to my ingenious friend, Francis Hopkinson" |
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Footpads did their robbing on foot; these bad boys commanded victims to stand & deliver from horseback |
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"The women of" this location in the 1982 novel by Gloria Naylor include Etta Mae & Kiswana |
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A partition wall that divides a ship's interior into compartments |
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The sumac family gives us mangoes, cashews & these pale green nuts |
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In his 1994 will, Warren Burger didn't give specific powers to his executors--well, it had been 8 years since he'd been this |
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The aromatic "seeds" of this cooking plant are really its small fruits |
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The story of a young divorcee pursuing a Ph.D., the feminist classic "The Women's Room" is by her |
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"The Three Musketeers" (Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland &, of course, Oliver Platt) |
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Back in the day, if the sun was over this, lads, it meant it was time for a drink |
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Allergic to shellfish? Good chance you are also allergic to their kin, the dust type of these tiny arthropods |
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Speechwriter Ted Sorensen witnessed the June 18, 1954 signing of this then-senator's will |
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This 2-word term for a high-speed computing network zoomed into print in Newsweek in 1983 |
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In 1859 Wilkie Collins published this mystery novel based on an actual criminal case |
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"The Agony and the Ecstasy" |
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A triangular headsail; the sailor in "All Is Lost" deploys a storm one |
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Celery is in the same family as this herb that tastes like licorice & flavors pernod |
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This heiress' 1993 will disposed of property in NYC, Newport, Beverly Hills & Honolulu & sent $10 million to Durham, N.C. |
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Alexander Selkirk, from 1704 to 1709 |
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Daniel Radcliffe starred in a big screen version of this Susan Hill horror novel about a ghost haunting a town |
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"Gladiator" starring Russell Crowe |
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They're not rodents' quips; they're rope steps used to climb into the rigging |
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The cypress family includes this conifer named for a Cherokee |
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His 1909 will named his daughter Clara & biographer Albert Bigelow Paine to help manage his literary estate |
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Stone pillars projecting from the coast of Northern Ireland are known as the Giant's this |
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