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Several U.S. entrepreneurs are selling pieces of this wall that began to crumble in 1989 |
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Your body has 23 pairs of these, & if you're a girl, one pair is XX |
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On Jan. 23, 1845 Congress said from now on this will be held on the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in Nov. |
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Followers of Islam & Judaism believe in the existence of these heavenly beings, as do Christians |
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This author of "Evangeline" was the American honored in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey |
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Collier's Encyclopedia says the name of this one-man canoe rhymes with "sly yak" |
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Pilots & flight attendants ended their 8-month strike against this airline in November 1989 |
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This form of an element has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons |
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Robert E. Lee graduated from here second in his class & later served as its superintendent |
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St. John Lateran Cathedral is his seat as Bishop of Rome |
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This American poet began the 1st poem in his 1st collection with the line "I celebrate myself" |
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These homes of Alaskan Eskimos can be made of wood, sod or stone as well as snow |
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Responding to protests in Wenceslas Square, Miles Jakes resigned as pres. of this country |
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English chemist Sir Walter Haworth coined this acid name for vitamin C |
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These for "The Star-Spangled Banner" & "America the Beautiful" were taken from other sources |
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The formal name of the Quaker Church is the "Religious Society of" these |
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On the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this Illinois poet addressed a joint session of Congress |
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In its entry on this subject, Encyclopedia Americana brings up the nose rubbing business |
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Teri Smith became the first living donor of this organ when her daughter Alyssa received part of hers |
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Alloys containing this metal, symbol Hg, are called amalgams |
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He got the Missouri Compromise thru the House & helped arrange the Compromise of 1850 |
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He was born to a noble family circa 563 B.C. in the region of the Indian-Nepalese border |
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This poet's "Ms. Found in a Bottle" won a Baltimore short story contest in 1833 |
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Meaning "people", it's the Eskimo name for themselves |
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Rene Moawad was assassinated just 17 days after he became president of this country |
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The idea that maggots could develop from decaying meat is one example of this now discarded theory |
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Though Eugene Debs had this lawyer defending him in 1894, he still got 6 months |
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This feast day commemorates the adoration of Jesus by the 3 Wise Men |
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In 1786 this poet was toasted as "Caledonia's Bard" by the Masonic Grand Lodge of Scotland |
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The first time Eskimos met Europeans was back around 1000 A.D. on this island |
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