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Organization which held its 8th World Jamboree Aug. 18-28, 1955 at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario |
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This network anchor went to Sam Houston college & was a reporter for the Houston Chronicle |
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Color of the iceberg & Mt. Shasta varieties |
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In Donizetti's opera, Lucrezia Borgia kills several men, her son & herself with this |
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It was not the only, just the most famous of the penal colonies in French Guiana |
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A "tercentenary" celebrates this anniversary |
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They held a 10th anniversary session in the S.F. opera house where they had drawn up their charter |
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This Texan was so popular in Britain that when he toured w/the Beatles, they gave him equal billing:
"Pretty woman, walkin' down the street / Pretty woman, the kind I'd like to meet / Pretty woman / I don't believe you..." |
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Infantile word that precedes "darling", "masquerade", & "Betsy McCall" in names of miniature roses |
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Boito died before finishing "Nerone", his opera about this emperor, so Toscanini finished it |
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The longest of these on record, 400 years, ended in Chile's Desierto de Atacama in 1971 |
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Nickname of a North Carolinian |
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After his death April 18, his brain was removed for scientific study, as he had wished |
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As Treasury Sec'y. this former Texas gov. signed all U.S. money; now bankrupt, he says he has none |
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1 of 2 20th century presidents who have roses named for them |
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She's the leading character in Musgrave's opera "Harriet, the Woman Called Moses" |
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Montevideo is the capital of this country that Fodor's calls "the Switzerland of South America" |
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We use it to mean "face-to-face", but the literal French translation is "head-to-head" |
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On March 2, King Sihanouk of this country abdicated the throne not to his son, but to his father |
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He popularized the slogan "Remember the Alamo" before inventing condensed milk |
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This oil from roses is used in making perfume |
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"Gloriana", an opera about Elizabeth I, premiered in June, 1953 in honor of her coronation |
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Westernmost point in South America, Punta Parinas, Peru, lies due south of this nearest U.S. state |
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The title of Vivien Leigh's only Broadway musical, it's also the Russian word for "comrade" |
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On November 3, 1955, he was confirmed as premier by the Israeli Knesset |
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Miriam Ferguson, who became governor 7 yrs. after her husband had been impeached, had this nickname |
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A rose is the state flower for these 2 states, the Empire State, & the Empire State of the South |
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"La Loca" dramatized the life of an insane queen, daughter of this 15th century Spanish pair |
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General Jose de San Martin is considered the liberator of this southern South American country |
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From the Latin for "squire" or "young soldier", it's a neophyte |
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