|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10 days before it was seized, the Marquis de Sade was moved from this prison for creating a disturbance |
|
|
This Islamic holy book is divided into 114 sections called suras |
|
|
Attu in this Alaskan chain has only about a dozen clear days a year |
|
|
On Jan. 4, 1995 this Georgia Republican became Speaker of the House of Representatives |
|
|
Aeschylus' tragic trilogy "Oresteia" won 1st prize at this Greek city's Great Dionysia Festival in 458 B.C. |
|
|
The general society of this ship's descendants is headquartered in Plymouth, Massachusetts |
|
|
In English this 1792 song begins, "Arise you children of our homeland" |
|
|
What is popularly called the Mormon church is officially "The Church of Jesus Christ of" these |
|
|
This island is about 50 times the size of Denmark, but has only about 1% as many people |
|
|
On June 9, 1990 the son of this then New York governor married the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy |
|
|
Shakespeare play in which Antonio asks, "Well, Shylock, shall we be beholden to you?" |
|
|
In 1898 Haakon Nyhuus reorganized this Norwegian city's Deichman Library |
|
|
4 months after this man's 1793 assassination, David presented a painting of it to the convention |
|
|
During Sukkot, one of this faith's 3 pilgrim festivals, temporary shelters are built |
|
|
This nation consists of most of the Greater & Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas & part of New Guinea |
|
|
This Missouri Democrat is the House minority leader |
|
|
Ilya Ilyich Telyegin, whose nickname is "Waffles", appears in this playwright's "Uncle Vanya" |
|
|
The beans of this "chocolate" tree were once used as money in Mexico & Central America |
|
|
In 1789 this doctor called for humane decapitation by a single blow |
|
|
This 1962-63 Roman Catholic council was the first in church history to issue no condemnations |
|
|
In antiquity this Spanish island group in the Atlantic was known as the Fortunate isles |
|
|
Evan Bayh, governor of this state, is the son of former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh |
|
|
Part of his 1920s play "Strange Interlude" takes place in a small university town in New England |
|
|
Stanislaw I was ousted as this country's king in 1709 & again in the 1730s |
|
|
Robespierre was president of this club named for the convent in which it met |
|
|
Kes-Dhari are the followers of this Indian religion who do not cut their hair |
|
|
Sark in this island group off the coast of France is the smallest self-governing British possession |
|
|
This West Virginian has served in the Senate longer than any present Democrat |
|
|
Beth Henley wrote her 1st play, "Am I Blue", while a drama student at this private Dallas university |
|
|
This dry, warm wind blowing down the east slopes of the Rockies is sometimes called a "snow eater" |
|