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As a result of 1986 elections, he went from Senate Majority Leader to Senate Minority Leader |
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This term for the king came into use during the New Kingdom; before that it referred to the palace |
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In 1875 in Oregon a Chinese farmer named Bing helped develop a variety of these |
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Completes John Howard Payne's line, "Be it ever so humble..." |
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In her last film, 1949's "The Sun Comes Up", her co-star was Lassie, not Nelson Eddy |
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This tennis great credits his mother & grandmother with teaching him the game |
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In 1960 Pres. Eisenhower took responsibility for the flights of this ill-fated plane |
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World Book calls it Ancient Egypt's most popular beverage - -they were such party animals |
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When dried, the fruit of the litchi tree is known as this |
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Robert Frost poem that begins "Whose woods these are I think I know" |
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Since her 1979 wedding to playwright David Rabe, she's no longer "An Unmarried Woman" |
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Established in 1901, Joliet is the oldest public one of these schools still operating |
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Voted "Most Energetic" in high school, he's been an energetic senator from Wisc. for 30 yrs. |
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Of the British Museum, the Egyptian Museum or in his tomb, where King Tut's body now rests |
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While muskrats are rodents, muscats are these |
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In the poem named for her, S. Jackson says, "Who touches a hair of yon gray head dies like a dog!" |
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She was the 1st actress to win an Oscar for composing a song, the 1977 hit "Evergreen" |
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This NBC commentator was the 1st working journalist appointed director of Voice of America |
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In 1973 this Mass. senator was the 1st Republican senator to call for Nixon's resignation |
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Found in 1799, this black basalt slab was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics |
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This popular muskmelon was named for a village in Italy |
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The town of Pippapass, Ky. was renamed Pippa Passes after a verse drama by this Englishman |
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This body of law is perhaps the greatest legacy of the Byzantine Empire |
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1st black mayor of a major U.S. city, Carl Stokes was elected by this Midwest city's voters in 1961 |
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Akhenhaten's wife; her name meant "the beautiful one comes", something said at her birth |
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Related to the apple & pear, this fruit is usually made into preserves rather than eaten raw |
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Hi tragic 1841 ballad "The Wreck of the Hesperus" was inspired by an actual shipwreck |
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This tough guy actor is the son of a kosher meat dealer from the Bronx |
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