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Dostoyevsky's "The House of the Dead" tells of his 4 years spent in a penal colony here |
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In 1867, when it was sold to the U.S. for $7.2 million, only 30,000 people lived there |
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"Tosca" was based on a play written for this great French actress of the late 1880s |
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For centuries, seers have read fortunes from these left in the bottom of a cup |
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It was King Leopold II's personal domain in Africa until the Belgian gov't took it over in 1908 |
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These beads or the prayers you say while using them are named for the Latin word for rose garden |
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"Rabbit is Rich" not only made him richer, it won him a Pulitzer Prize |
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After a revolt failed in 1834, Garibaldi fled overseas to this continent to fight in a guerrilla war |
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1 full-length & 3 1-act Puccini operas were 1st staged by this American opera company |
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Chiromancy, which is this, is the only common form of psychic reading that uses a magnifying glass |
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The only river that completely crosses the Sahara Desert |
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Preferred ship accommodations described as "port out, starboard home" may have evolved into this word |
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The 1st book by Gertrude Stein to receive major critical attention was this "Autobiography" |
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In 1930 he made the news when he broke the law making salt from seawater |
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Of Mimi, Manon or Musetta, the one who dies of consumption |
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Ancient Greeks believed the gods spoke through prophets called these |
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Francis Scott Key was a member of the society that founded this African country |
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A hangman at Tyburn Prison was named this, & his name came to be used for any machine that hoists |
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Creator of "Penrod", he once served as an Indiana State legislator |
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The 1st reigning queen of the English house of Tudor |
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In the traditional tarot deck, this figure is suspended upside down with one leg across the other |
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This country & its "Equatorial" namesake are located some 1,500 miles apart |
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Since the 1640s this word has meant "one who counts"; the machine arrived over 300 years later |
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Like his father, this great romantic German writer practiced law |
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1 of 3 men who gave orations at Stalin's funeral & began wrestling for power right afterwards |
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From Greek for "mind", it's the study of the conformation of the skull to aid in "reading" lives |
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Every winter, a famous road rally race is run from Paris to this capital of Senegal |
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This word for "the West" came from the Latin "to fall" because the west is where the sun fell |
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