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In 1749 he was appointed surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia |
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In 1996 this popular star directed his first feature film, "That Thing You Do!" |
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This duke of jazz composed an original score for Alvin Ailey's brilliant modern ballet "The River" |
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According to the title of Flannery O'Connor's first book pf short stories, this kind of "man is hard to find" |
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This term for meat-eating mammals encompasses fish eaters like seals |
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In October 1996 its peso fell to 8 to a dollar |
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On June 16, 1858 he said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand" |
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David Lean's sweeping saga of this British adventurer was reissued in 1989 with previously unseen footage |
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"Concerto Barocco" is danced to a concerto for 2 violins by this great Baroque composer |
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This "Lolita" author remembers his childhood in St. Petersburg in his memoir "Speak, Memory" |
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This group of mammals lost out to placental mammals in much of the world but hung tough in Australia |
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If you're off on the road to this north African country take some dirhams, its currency |
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While he was vacationing at his father's Vermont home, word reached him that Harding had died |
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In this 1995 comedy Damon Wayans starred as an ex-Marine hired to train junior ROTCs |
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In 1998 she performed with the Kirov Ballet for the first time since her defection 18 years earlier |
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This English poet's "Ode On Indolence" wasn't published until after his death |
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Using feelers on its snout, the star-nosed type of this nearly blind mammal finds food underground |
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After it broke from Yugoslavia in 1991, Greece objected to its use of Hellenic symbols |
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While governor of New Jersey, he enacted the state's first workmen's compensation law |
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It's the film in which Tom Cruise played up-&-coming lawyer Mitch McDeere |
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Eugene Loring played the devil in this female choreographer's 1941 ballet "Three Virgins and a Devil" |
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She published "Exit To Eden" under the pen name Anne Rampling |
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The pygmy species of this amphibious mammal reaches a mere 3' high, 6' long & 400 lbs. |
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It's been ruled by the Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, Knights, France, Britain & since 1964, itself |
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The last Whig elected president, he was James Madison's distant cousin |
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Liam Neeson won critical acclaim for his recent portrayal of this Irish revolutionary |
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George Balanchine created 10 ballets for this impresario's Ballets Russes |
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He wrote "I, Claudius" for adults & "The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star" for children |
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Bush babies are tree-dwelling members of this order that includes human babies |
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Formerly the Caroline Islands, its name sounds like it's the smallest country in the world |
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