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British author Rebecca West was given this title in 1959 |
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Both the Olympics & the Nemean Games were held in his honor |
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Some macaques have long ones, some have short ones & the barbary ape doesn't have one at all |
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It's title may suggest it's written for NYC residents, but 79% of its readers live elsewhere |
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Name shared by an island in the Bahamas & the capital of El Salvador |
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Actor N. Shelley says he gave the famous speech on the retreat at Dunkirk as this man wasn't available |
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This "Garp" author said reading Charles Dickens' books made him want to become a novelist |
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The Anchor Atlas of World History calls these 2 epics "the primer of Greek youth" |
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The American species of this red-breasted singer is known to scientists as Turdus migratorius |
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A leading postwar West German magazine, its name translates to "the star" |
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The Ganges & Brahmaputra Rivers have built up a 50,000 square mi. delta into this bay |
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On April 19, 1951 he told a joint session of Congress, "I now close my military career & just fade away" |
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This creator of Captain Wolf Larsen was the illegitimate son of a traveling astrologer |
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It's said he wandered around Athens during the day with a lamp looking for an honest man |
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Whippets were bred originally to chase these lagomorphs for sport |
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1 of 2 current magazines of over 300,000 circulation whose names begin with "Modern" |
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When China took over this country in 1950-51, it acquired a "roof" |
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Lincoln said at Gettysburg that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not" do this |
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We hope his "Fahrenheit 451" will never be subjected to the treatment given to books in it |
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Found around 900 B.C., it became a military state some 300 years later |
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It's the largest cat native to Latin America where it's known as "el tigre" |
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Rodale Press' top-selling magazines are Organic Gardening & this one about health conservation |
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In exchange for what's now N.Y., England gave the Dutch what's now this South American country |
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This senator told an audience in 1968, "Like my brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard." |
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She dedicated her novel "Rubyfruit Jungle" to actress Alexis Smith |
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The Greeks didn't call themselves Greeks but these |
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The rare tuatara is the only living member of an entire order of this class of vertebrates |
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Women's magazine, still published today, that began as a supplement to Tribune and Farmer |
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During the Roman Republic, this river formed the boundary between Italy & Cisalpine Gaul |
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In his 1st speech as president he said, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." |
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