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Failing to win support for her Brexit deal, she stepped down as Tory leader in June 2019 & as prime minister in July |
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John McCrae wrote, "In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row" about the fallen in this conflict |
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His nickname of "Satchmo" came from a truncation of "Satchel Mouth" |
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Mathura on the Yamuna River is one of the 7 sacred cities of this religion |
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7-letter word for a precociously talented child |
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Not as iridescent as the true kind, the type of this gem formed in a conch has examples over 20 carats |
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Shockingly assassinated in 2022, he was twice prime minister of Japan |
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William Cowper's "On the Loss of the Royal George" wasn't written for a king, but for one of these, gone with great loss of life |
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In her lifetime, Bessie Smith was known as this 7-letter title "of the Blues", implying rule over a vast realm |
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The feast of this event in Jesus' life in the River Jordan is celebrated by Eastern Christians using meltwater from a cross of ice |
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Any small & unimportant town, also the name of a native people who lived in Connecticut |
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Using a ruby rod, Theodore Maiman built the first working one of these in 1960 |
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After helping to establish this as an independent country, Eduard Shevardnadze became its president in 1995 |
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1855's "Haworth Churchyard" was Matthew Arnold's tribute to these literary sisters, written soon after the last one passed |
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Legend says this "King of the Delta Blues Singers" sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads for his talent |
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In Islam haram, "forbidden", is the opposite of this word, "permitted" |
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Hector & Paris are sons of Hecuba & this king of Troy |
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This gin brand is named for a gem that's found in the Smithsonian |
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From 1960 to 1977, Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios III was president of this island nation |
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"The paths of glory lead but to the grave" is from this man's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" |
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A Broadway show was called this nickname for Billie Holiday "at Emerson's Bar & Grill" |
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The fifth Dalai Lama declared his guru, a great scholar, to be this lama |
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Nasalis larvatus is the scientific name of this primate |
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Catherine the Great owned a 107-carat one of these gems from Colombia; a necklace with a 75-carat version sold for $4.3 mil. |
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Hats off to this man who was chancellor of West Germany & then of a unified Germany from 1990 to 1998 |
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This "Invictus" poet also penned "Margaritae Sorori", an elegy in which death gets (& is) the last word |
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Riley King went by B.B., originally short for Blues Boy; his guitar also had a nickname--this woman's name |
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These wavelike contractions carry food through the digestive tract |
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Part of the British regalia, the Great Star of Africa was once part of this diamond named for Sir Thomas |
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