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The emblem painted on a knight's shield was called his coat of these |
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Legend says this national anthem was first sung in 1814 in front of a tavern in Baltimore |
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It's the signature on the back of a check |
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To breathe, fish take water in through the mouth & pass it through these, which absorb the oxygen |
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This body has 15 members, 5 of which are permanent |
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In a tale by Aesop, a mouse talks this animal out of eating him; later the mouse saves him |
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The years 1347 to 1350 may have been the "darkest" days of this disease that devastated Europe |
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"Young Folks At Home" was a 19th century parody of this Stephen Foster song |
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The opposite of bear, this person expects stock or commodity prices to rise |
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Robert Hooke gave this term to the compartments in plant & animal tissue he saw under his microscope |
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The World Bank is headquartered in this U.S. city, not in New York City |
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Bagheera is the black panther who watches over this boy in "The Jungle Book" |
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Knights & their lords enjoyed playing this board game which still features knights today |
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Cowboys who sing "Red River Valley" sound a bit French when they say, "Do not hasten to bid me" this |
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This division of the Treasury Department is responsible for collecting excise as well as income taxes |
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Recombinant DNA technology is the manipulation of these |
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To keep peace between Greeks & Turks, U.N. forces have been on this island since 1964 |
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By the end of Dickens' novel about Little Nell, this title shop has been torn down |
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When he became Duke of Normandy in 1035, he wasn't a conqueror yet; he was only 8 |
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The duo who wrote, "I'm called little buttercup, dear little buttercup though I could never tell why" |
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This sustained rise in the level of prices in the economy can be "creeping" or "hyper" |
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Common name of the non-mobile aquatic animals scientifically called Porifera, or "having pores" |
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The U.N.'s European headquarters in Geneva is in the palace of this U.N predecessor |
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In a Hawthorne novel, Arthur dimmesdale reveals that he bears this title insignia on his chest, too |
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Born around 742, this great king of the Franks had fair hair, a thick neck & a pot belly |
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Walter Kittredge wrote the song heard here during this war; he tried to enlist but was turned down: "Tenting tonight, tenting tonight, / Tenting on the old camp ground" |
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GATT, a multinational institution set up in 1947, is the "General Agreement on Tariffs" & this |
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The diploid number of chromosomes in man |
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This Egyptian is the first secretary-general from Africa |
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To help you understand it, there's now "A Reader's Companion" to his "A Brief History of Time" |
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