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When you "cashed in your chips", you headed for the "last" one of these |
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Dan Rather, Jane Pauley & Dale Evans might enjoy bobbing for apples on this day, their birthday |
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This country's remaining crown jewels are in the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre |
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Lipids are soluble in fat solvents & insoluble in this common liquid |
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In 1995, on the 1st day of the 104th Congress, 3 full standing & 25 "sub" ones of these were abolished |
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"Straws show which way" this "blows" |
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Cowboys called it black water, brown gargle & cafecito |
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Jack LaLanne & this "Rhapsody In Blue" composer were born on September 26, but in different centuries |
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The finest of these red gems are obtained from limestone gravel in Myanmar |
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In some flies this secretion contains a digestive enzyme; in bloodsuckers, an anticoagulant |
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Frederick A.C. Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was the first to hold this top congressional post |
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The letters this service carried in 1860 & 1861 were carried in mochilas draped over the saddle |
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On August 15 this "French Chef" could bake a cake for herself, "Mannix" star Mike Connors & Linda Ellerbee |
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This purple or violet quartz gem is thought to protect against drunkenness |
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The pollen producer in a flower, it features an anther at its apex |
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The last of these rejected by the Senate was the Montreal Aviation Protocols in 1983 |
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According to Kipling, "The female of the species is more" this "than the male" |
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Deadwood Dick & Hurricane Nell were typical characters in these pulp novels |
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Wayne Newton could "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round" this singer on April 3, their mutual birthday |
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The Victorians made dark red jewelry out of the pyrope type of this gem, mined in Bohemia |
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Among the muscles, it's the antagonist of the biceps |
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In 1957 this South Carolina senator made the Senate's longest speech, 24 hours, 18 minutes |
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A Latin proverb says "In vino" this |
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It was an Indian-English term for the black soldiers in the Apache wars |
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Al Pacino & this actress who played his sister in the "Godfather" films were born on April 25 |
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The largest cut one of these gems is the 545.67-carat Unnamed Brown |
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Vital for blood clotting, there are about 250,000 of them per cubic millimeter of blood |
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This Maine senator was the first of her party to denounce Senator McCarthy on the Senate floor |
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"Iron not used soon" does this |
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