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While living by Walden Pond in 1846, he was arrested for refusing to pay his poll tax |
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You can find the Bill of Rights on display in this D.C. building's Exhibition Hall |
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Legend says this Japanese mountain was created during an earthquake in 286 B.C. |
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These colored chalklike sticks are made with a pigment & a weak adhesive such as gum tragacanth |
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On Nov. 21, 1620, after a 66-day voyage, this ship reached Cape Cod |
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In addition to Buck & White Fang, this author wrote about Jerry, an Irish terrier pup |
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He & William MacGillivray wrote "The Ornithological Biography" to go with his "Birds of America" |
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He's the only U.S. president to have served as director of the CIA |
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This highest Greek mountain wasn't scaled until 1913 |
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In 1546 Pope Paul III appointed this artist architect of St. Peter's Basilica |
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In 1607 Edward M. Wingfield was ousted as president of the Virginia colony at this site |
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Early collections of his stories include "Flappers And Philosophers" & "Tales Of The Jazz Age" |
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Studying these in the Swiss Alps, Louis Agassiz postulated the Earth was once covered by them |
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National grasslands are administered by the Forest Service, an agency of this cabinet department |
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Encyclopedia Americana calls it the "most photographed peak in Europe" |
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The final layer of plaster prepared for this type of wall painting is called intonaco |
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George Fox, leader of this British religious group, toured the American colonies in 1672 |
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In "David Copperfield", Wilkins is the first name of this kindhearted optimist |
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He was only 22 when he boarded the Beagle in 1831 |
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Montana's Marc Racicot & this state's Jim Guy Tucker are the USA's lowest-paid governors |
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In 1949 a U.S. expedition spent 12 futile days searching for Noah's Ark on this mountain |
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In 1930 Grant Wood's reputation was established by a Chicago showing of this painting |
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In 1631 this governor of New Netherland was removed due to liberal policies toward wealthy landowners |
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This B. Traven novel about 3 Americans looking for gold in Mexico was first published in Germany |
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While in Holland in 1735, this Swede published his "Systema Naturae", a taxonomy system |
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This Ohio Republican won election to the U.S. Senate in 1938 & served until his death in 1953 |
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The Karakoram Mountains include this famous peak also known as Mount Godwin Austen |
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She was commissioned to paint a mural for the woman's building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition |
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On April 9, 1682 this Frenchman reached the mouth of the Mississippi & claimed the valley for France |
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"To Let" was the last novel in this John Galsworthy series |
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