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THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR |
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This "Iliad" poet often refers to "The Wine-Dark Sea" |
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1997: "Titanic" sank his competition |
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An NSA career in electrical engineering may include designing these, aka aerials |
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Not now, but possibly in a while |
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In 1830 Daniel O'Connell became the first Catholic Irishman in modern times to serve in this British government body |
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One of this country's big attractions, the "Emerald Buddha" was in a Chiang Mai temple before it went to the capital |
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Adventures in this 1870 novel include traveling under the polar ice cap & the discovery of Atlantis |
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1990: "Dancing with Wolves" had him dancing with trophy |
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You can make invisible ink by mixing 2 oz. of water with 1 oz. of this original Arm & Hammer kitchen product |
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What a deer has where a bull has a horn |
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A printer by trade, Arthur Griffith negotiated a 1921 treaty with the British & founded this Irish-named political party |
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Green Lake Park is one reason "The Emerald City" is the nickname for this West Coast city |
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This fictional captain created by C.S. Forester was inspired by Horatio Nelson & Thomas Cochrane |
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2003: Here's the thing--"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" got him the bling |
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Facial recognition technology had a great testing ground as casinos used it to spot these alliterative gamblers |
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Adjective meaning forever lasting & changeless |
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At Clontarf in 1014, King Brian Boru led the Irish to victory against these invaders but died at the battle |
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The emerald is an appropriate birthstone for this author who created an emerald city of literature |
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In this Jack London novel, Wolf Larsen is the captain of the Ghost, once a private yacht |
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1992: "Unforgiven" won him a statue with no apologies |
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A quick explosion found before "of speed"; before "transmission", it's a message encoded by playing it at high speed |
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A branch of the Defense Department |
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Perhaps an opportunistic co-opting of a Pagan goddess, she is the second-most prominent Irish saint |
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Since the arrival of the conquistadors, this South American country has been the mecca for emeralds |
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Patrick O'Brian's first novel about Captain Aubrey & Surgeon Stephen Maturin, it's set in the Napoleonic Wars |
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2012: "Life of Pi" was his second win, not his 3.14th |
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A hub of cyberspying on U.S. institutions is the Shanghai base of P.L.A. Unit 61398, P.L.A. short for this |
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A song or poem expressing deep grief |
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A 1990s economic upsurge that turned out to be basically a bubble got Ireland the nickname "Celtic" this beast |
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The firm formed when he married Estelle Arpels created a 150-carat engraved emerald for the Shah's wife |
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