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Named for England's leading industrial city, it's Alabama's leading industrial city |
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Edith Wharton was the 1st woman to win this award for fiction, for "The Age of Innocence" |
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Encyclopedia Americana says this Russian empress had 10 lovers |
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Term meaning "in the church or chapel style", it describes choral music that is sung unaccompanied |
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Popularly used for mulling cider & wine, this spice is the bark of a variety of laurel tree |
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Mammal group whose young are born extremely underdeveloped--& often in Australia |
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Played each Dec. in Alabama, the annual college football game between north & south is called this |
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Methodist minister's son who lived with a madam after writing "The Red Badge of Courage" |
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Of the 6 children of Catherine of Aragon & Henry VIII, only she lived to maturity |
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Of the chorus, the verse, or the refrain, the one different from the other 2 |
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From French "to boil", this type of broth is made by boiling down the volume of meat stock |
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Famed as a snake killer, this slender, furry mammal can crack a snake's skull with 1 bite |
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In 1958 the Mobile Jaycees began this beauty pageant for high-school girls |
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William Congreve gave up writing these after "The Way of the World" was a commercial failure |
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When Henry VIII died, his widow, Catherine Parr, married Lord Seymour, brother of this queen |
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Bartok & Copland wrote works specifically for this American clarinetist |
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Most recipes tell you to soak potato chips in this before frying |
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The largest of all parrot species |
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You can send your son or daughter to the U.S. Space Camp located here |
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He wrote "Is Sex Necessary?" with James Thurber but he's better known for "Charlotte's Web" |
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Accused of affairs w/her male secretary & her cousin, this 5th wife of Henry VIII was beheaded |
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If there are no sharps or flats next to the treble clef, this is the key |
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Bread rises when yeast fermentation produces this gas |
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The 2 prehistoric "m"ammals which looked remarkably like present-day elephants |
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1 of 4 other states besides Alabama who names appear on Alabama's great seal |
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Born in North Carolina, this accused embezzler fled to Honduras & later became "O. Henry" |
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3 sons of Catherine de Medici became kings of this country, not Italy |
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Collective title of the piano pieces Liszt based on Gypsy melodies |
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Old French for "white food", it's a pudding of milk, eggs, sugar & cornstarch |
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These storks eat offal from slaughter-houses but women still wear negligees trimmed w/their feather |
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