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After meeting this rival liberator in 1822, San Martin left South America |
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His son, Nanki-Poo, poses as a minstrel & later weds Yum-Yum |
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A unit of wave frequency defined as 1 cycle per second, or a car rental company |
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A recent show of her works at the Whitney Museum included bronzes of her art made before she was Mrs. John Lennon |
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The city's planner, Pierre L' Enfant, called this hill "A pedestal waiting for a monument" |
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"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" is from this Tennyson poem |
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In 1616 Dutch explorer Willem Schouten rounded this cape that he named for his home town |
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In "The Ring of the Nibelung", Siegfried braved a ring of fire to save this goddess |
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While processing pitchblende, a uranium ore, Marie & Pierre Curie & G. DeMont discovered this element |
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Back in 1961 his "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer" brought a record price of $2.3 million |
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This little park, named for a French nobleman, faces the White House across Pennsylvania Ave. |
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The 1956 novel "Compulsion" was based on the story of this duo defended by Darrow |
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland was established on the first day of this century |
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He was the crippled 12-year-old title character in the first opera written for television |
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The curved path along which a planet travels under the influence of a gravitational field |
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Jean Arp coined this term to describe the non-mobile works of Alexander Calder |
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The National Zoological park is a unit of this |
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Chingachgook became the last of the Mohicans when this man, his son, died |
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In 1901 the U.S. made this island a virtual protectorate |
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They were the son & daughter of Peter, a poor broom maker & his wife, Gertrude |
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Speaking of this device, Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth." |
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One of Goya's works depicts this father of Jupiter "devouring his children" |
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The basement of this building at 511 10th St. NW houses a museum of Lincoln memorabilia |
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This Oliver Goldsmith play is subtitled "The Mistakes of the Night" |
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After this mutiny failed in 1858, the last Mogul emperor of India was exiled to Burma |
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At the end of "I Pagliacci", this clown stabs his wife, Nedda, & her lover, Silvio |
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The measure of a body's inertia is technically known as this |
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Also known as "Beaubourg", the Paris Center for the Contemporary Art is named after this French president |
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Massachusetts Avenue is noted for more of them than any other street |
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He wrote "Penrod", "Penrod and Son" & "Penrod Jashber" |
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