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In 1979 technicians at this company's Shibaura plant in Tokyo developed the Walkman |
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It's a curved, springy stick about 29 inches long with a flat ribbon of hair attached to it |
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In French, sentences placing "ne" before the verb & "pas" after it make it this |
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He overestimated the size of Asia & underestimated the Earth, so he thought he'd reached the Orient |
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Common name for monochromatism, which makes the world seem black, white & gray |
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An atoll in the south seas, or the 2-piece bathing suit named for it |
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He experimented with submarines before building the first commercially successful steamboat |
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The finest violins ever made, they bear the Latinized form of their maker's name |
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An official language of Kenya, its name means "coast people" |
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He was hoping the river named for him would lead him to the Pacific, but he only got to Albany |
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Of measles, mumps or chicken pox, the one for which no vaccine is generally available |
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The current president of baseball's American League, or the singer heard here: |
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A noise reduction system for audio tapes is named for this man, its inventor |
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The rest for this part of the body was invented about 1820, probably by violinist Ludwig Spohr |
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Among languages spoken by more than 1 million people, it's the only one whose name begins with "V" |
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He was standing on Darien Peak on the isthmus of Panama when he became the first European to see the Pacific |
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An exact copy of a cell, a gene or an organism is called this |
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The actor who played Jock Ewing on "Dallas", or the cartoonist who created "Garfield" |
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This invention was also called "The Pennsylvania Fireplace" |
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This Tel Aviv-born violinist overcame polio & first performed in public at age 9 |
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You don't have to be crazy to know "meshugga" is from this language |
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This founder of Quebec also discovered the large lake named for him |
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Nightmares occur during REM sleep, which is defined as this |
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A D.C. daily newspaper, or the march John Philip Sousa wrote for it |
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Edwin Herbert Land first demonstrated this invention in 1947 |
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Baroque composer whose most famous works are the violin concertos known as "The Four Seasons" |
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This saint should be praised for coming up with the script for the Russian alphabet |
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9 years before Da Gama, he led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope |
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Leukemia is marked by an uncontrolled proliferation of these cells |
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Roman goddess associated with the Greek Nike, or the capital of British Columbia |
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