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YOU'LL "HANG" ON EVERY WORD |
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Susannah Dickinson & her child were among the few survivors at this mission chapel; remember, it was a battle cry |
the Alamo
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Here's a fun project: name this TV personality seen here |
Mindy Kaling
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This children's game inspired "Wheel of Fortune" |
hangman
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The project named for this "Peanuts" character donates blankets to children in hospitals & shelters |
Linus
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He published "The Four Seasons" with poems that expressed what the music was intended to evoke about each season |
Vivaldi
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At this event, the monarch receives a scepter to symbolize her power |
a coronation
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Olivier Martinez plays this Mexican general who was first victorious but ultimately defeated in the Texas revolution |
Santa Anna
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This long-running NBC Sunday morning news show began as a radio promotion for the American Mercury magazine |
Meet the Press
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A favorite place to spend time |
a hangout
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This program with a rhyming name that feeds the elderly started in WWII with nurses delivering food via prams to British servicemen |
Meals on Wheels
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He spent the summer of 1839 at Nohant, George Sand's country house |
Chopin
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A plum = spring in these poems, as in Ransetsu's "On the plum tree, one blossom, one blossomworth of warmth" |
a haiku
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Texas independence was sealed when 800 men defeated 1,500 Mexicans in this battle; the pronunciation battle goes on |
San Jacinto
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The title couple met at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting on this CBS sitcom |
(Cindy: [Sighs] Who are...)
Mike & Molly
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"Monday head" is an old term for this condition |
a hangover
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You get them just by using your credit card--give some to Fisher House & help get wounded soldiers to medical centers |
frequent flyer miles
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The dancers could not hear the orchestra over the rioting audience when his "Rite of Spring" premiered |
Stravinsky
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A longtime symbol of purity, it's more a symbol of greed in "Heart of Darkness" & in modern ecology |
ivory
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One of the first acts of the new Texas government was posting this law-enforcement group to defend the frontier |
the Texas Rangers
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This "Good Morning America" anchor is in the women's Basketball Hall of Fame |
Robin Roberts
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It's the sport of flying in lightweight unpowered aircraft |
hang gliding
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This group whose name means "benevolence" sells donated items to fund its job-training programs |
Goodwill
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He was in Rome when he met his fellow countryman Henrik Ibsen |
(Edvard) Grieg
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Different colors symbolize the army & the church, Julien Sorel's possible career paths in this Stendhal novel |
The Red and the Black
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Played by Bill Paxton, he went from military hero to political leader as the first president of the new republic |
(Sam) Houston
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He's been a serious cop on the drama "Homicide" & a seriously funny cop on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" |
Andre Braugher
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Put all your toes over the edge of the surfboard |
hang 10
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Help victims of domestic violence by donating old these to Shelter Alliance, a program run by GRC Wireless |
cell phones
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An "L" of a great pianist as well as a composer, he composed the "Liebestraum" or "Love Dream" heard here |
(Franz) Liszt
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Like laurel, it's a female first name & a symbolic plant, representing love in the bouquets of British royal brides |
(Cindy: What is ivy?) (Fritz: What is lily?)
myrtle
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