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This current vice president is the only man born in Washington, D.C. to serve in that office |
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Alabastrons are ancient unguent jars often made of this, hence their name |
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This religion's members of Spanish or Portuguese origin are called Sephardim |
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In 1906 journalist James Gordon Bennett donated a trophy to this sport that's full of hot air |
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The old part of this capital city features El Morro, a fort begun in 1539 |
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Irving Stone called his biographical novel about this naturalist "The Origin" |
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In the 1970s this Indianan worked briefly as associate publisher of the Huntington Herald-Press |
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It's the term for labyrinthine subterranean cemeteries such as the ones in Rome |
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Islamic dogma holds that this sacred book existed before the world & humanity |
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Since 1992 this former journalist has been U.N. Secretary-General |
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In 1967 39% of the voters wanted this; in 1993, 46% |
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It was said this James Michener book did for Maryland's eastern shore what "Centennial" did for Colorado |
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Only 2 men have been appointed VP under the 25th Amendment: Gerald Ford & this New York governor |
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Human sacrifices were once thrown into the Cenote or Sacred Well at Chichen Ittza in this country |
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His final release at Kasia from the cycle of rebirth is called the Parinirvana |
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He founded the New York Tribune in 1841 & was its editor for 31 years |
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Born Rosita Dolores Alverio, this Puerto Rican has won an Oscar. a Tony, an Emmy & a Grammy |
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"Jubal Sackett", his last western novel about the Sackett family, was published in 1985 |
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In 1944 he helped organize Minnesota's Democratic Farmer-Labor Party |
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Greek statues of this creature often have women's heads & wings, unlike the monument at Giza |
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Pietism began within this denomination in 17th century Germany |
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After her exile from Chile, this journalist turned novelist with "The House of the Spirits" |
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An annual music festival was founded by this cellist who moved to Puerto Rico in 1956 |
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This "Gorky Park" author's novel "Nightwing" is a thriller about plague-carrying vampire bats |
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This president's 2 vice presidents were John C. Calhoun & Martin Van Buren |
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He uncovered tombs of Mycenaean kings in 1876, a few years after finding ancient Troy |
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This church includes the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople & Jerusalem |
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Born in Oregon in 1887, he was buried in the Kremlin in 1920 |
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This Puerto Rican was sworn in as Surgeon General March 9, 1990 |
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In 1959 this author of "The Natural" won a National Book Award for "The Magic Barrel" |
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