YOU GOT SOME REAL BIRTHSTONES, MAN |
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For June, it's these before swine (& they look lovely on you, dear!) |
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The last Mamluk sultan of Egypt was hanged in 1517, the same year he is said to have hung his 95 theses on a church door |
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FOMO is fear of doing this; its corollary is JOMO, joy of it |
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Check out the 1903 Wright Flyer & an Apollo lunar module at this Smithsonian spot |
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"Bridget Jones's Diary", "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", "Driving Miss Daisy" |
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Auntie Em! This July birthstone matches my new slippers! |
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When John Stuart Mill was publishing "On Liberty", John Brown lost his liberty after raiding this arsenal |
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After years with no NFL team, we got our second as this team announced its move north in 2017 |
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Merriam-Webster's newer terms for subtly expressing scorn include "side-eye" & "throw" this |
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Geek out over the Polaroid historical collection & slide rule collection at this Mass. school's museum |
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"L.A. Confidential", "Escape from New York", "Beverly Hills Cop" |
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For April, these gems are forever, hold one up & then caress it, touch it, stroke it & undress it |
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Insane George III was replaced by a regent in 1811, the year Jane Austen published this novel about the Dashwood sisters |
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This famed amphitheater has been dishing out performances since 1922 |
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This 3-letter word means "amazing"; in a Rae Sremmurd song title, it precedes "Like Bic" |
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In 2001 the Taliban purged this country's National Museum of pre-Islamic statues |
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"Bridesmaids,", "Father of the Bride", "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" |
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October gives you a choice of tourmaline or this "O" gem |
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In 1787 Alexander Hamilton was occupied with the Constitutional convention; he was busy composing "Don Giovanni" |
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11-letter term for a place 2 highways meet; the one at the 110 & 105 was the location for the "La La Land" opening number |
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This action signals a definitive end; it followed "Obama out" at the 2016 White House Correspondents Dinner |
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The St. Petersburg, Florida museum devoted to this Spanish artist features one of his lobster telephones |
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"The Fly", "Kung Fu Panda", "Snakes on a Plane" |
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Latin granatum, "pomegranate", gave us the name of this January gem; it looks like a red pomegranate seed |
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In the late 1400s Platina produced the first printed cookbook; in Spain this Grand Inquisitor cooked up punishments |
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The portmanteau word stan, like the obsessed guy in the Eminem song, is derived from these 2 other words |
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The National Civil Rights Museum is located in this former Memphis motel |
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"The Godfather", "The Bodyguard", "The Terminator" |
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