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DOING BUSINESS IN THE 1800s |
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This second-longest river in Europe begins where the streams Breg & Brigach merge in the Black Forest |
(Tim: What is the Rhine?) (Kathleen: What is the Rhône?)
the Danube
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Zachary Gordon played Greg Heffley, the title diarist of the 2010 movie version of this Jeff Kinney novel for kids |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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I'd be happy to be on board Pt 78, this valuable element |
platinum
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The first watering hole called this was out west in 1822; adding poker & batwing doors made for a fine business model |
a saloon
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Rewards totaling over $10,000 were reportedly offered for the capture of this woman called the "Moses of Her People" |
Harriet Tubman
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A psychiatrist once defined these as "perceptions without corresponding stimuli from without" |
hallucinations
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A stream flows vertically through the center of a work he painted during his second stay in Tahiti |
Gauguin
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Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" became this film with Amy Adams as a linguistics professor |
Arrival
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Atomic No. 53, it's highly soluble in alcohol & then is used on cuts & scrapes |
(Tom: What is mercury?)
iodine
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How's a mill or mine owner to make a living with laws like the Mass. one in 1842 limiting these workers to a 10-hour day |
(Kathleen: What are laborers?)
children
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After a 166-day confirmation process, she succeeded Eric Holder in a government job |
Loretta Lynch
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Arnold Palmer once said the Masters was played on this type of ground |
hallowed ground
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"The Old Man and the Sea" begins, "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in" this warm ocean current |
the Gulf Stream
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Lisa Genova's novel about a woman with early-onset Alzheimer's became this Julianne Moore film |
Still Alice
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You might need an RN if you're exposed to too much of this noble gas, No. 86 |
radon
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In Britain a pound equaled 20 shillings; this gold coin named for a region of Africa equaled 21 shillings |
a guinea
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This singer entertained us from the 1930s into the '90s; enjoy some of her genius now |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
Ella Fitzgerald
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This condition can be combated via Certs or Tic Tac |
halitosis
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In 1960 she set up a camp to study chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve, now a national park in Tanzania |
(Jane) Goodall
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Based on Stephen King, this 2017 film has Idris Elba as the gunslinger, in pursuit of Matthew McConaughey's Man in Black |
The Dark Tower
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Symbol Na, it can react explosively with water |
sodium
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Early 19th century British textile makers saw their labor-saving machines smashed by these activists |
the Luddites
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In 1995, decades after the assassination of her husband Medgar, she became head of the NAACP |
(Tom: Who is Evers?) (Alex: Need more. Need the first--) (Tom: Louisa Evers?)
Myrlie Evers
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Found before "days", this word meaning "peaceful" also refers to a mythical bird |
halcyon
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A Turkish river gave us this word for a U-shaped bend in a stream's course; now it also means to take a winding course |
meander
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The 1963 western "Hud" was based on "Horseman, Pass By", his first novel |
Larry McMurtry
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Radioactive element named for American chemist Glenn |
(Alex: Never heard of it myself. Glenn Seaborg, but it's [*].)
seaborgium
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Dickens' United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin & Crumpet Baking & Punctual Delivery Co. was a joint this co. |
a joint stock company
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Last name of N.Y. congresswoman Shirley, the first African American to mount a serious run for president from a major party |
Chisholm
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Used for both thrusting & striking around 1500, it's the weapon seen here |
a halberd
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