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Word meaning to forbid or veto, it's from the German "nichts", meaning nothing |
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A small bunch of bananas is called a hand; an individual banana is called this |
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First name shared by playwrights Rabe & Mamet |
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More than half the world's population lives on this continent |
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George Washington's inauguration was re-enacted on April 30,1989 at this city's Federal Hall |
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Carthaginian general who took a fatal dose of poison circa 183 B.C. |
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This word for a shopping center came from the narrow alleys where a game was played with a ball & mallet |
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When used in weights & measures, the prefix mega- means this number |
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Novelist who dedicated his play "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" to its director, Charles Laughton |
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Greenland is about 50 times as large as this country of which it is a province |
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In 1912 this candidate of the Bull Moose Party lost to Wilson |
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The cause of this teenage ruler's sudden death circa 1339 B.C. is still unknown |
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Amateur radio operators could tell you this word is derived from the word "amateur" |
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The word for this distance is from the Latin for "a thousand paces" |
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His collaborators included Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber & Moss Hart |
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Belonging to Chile, this cape is the southernmost extremity of South America |
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Boston's archbishop & future cardinal Richard Cushing conducted their marriage ceremony |
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Dancer whose children were drowned in 1913 in a car which rolled into the Seine; she died 14 yrs. later |
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This word for a utopia came from the paradise in James Hilton's "Lost Horizon" |
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It was originally intended to be exactly equal to the mass of water in a liter |
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Act II of "A Day in Hollywood/ A Night in the Ukraine" was loosely based on this Russian's "The Bear" |
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In 1947 when the British left, the Punjab was divided between these 2 countries |
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The only president born in Iowa, he was the first president born west of the Mississippi |
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In Arthurian legend, King Arthur slays this treacherous relative in battle |
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The Sanskrit word "chitra", meaning brightly colored, is the root of this word for cheap or tawdry |
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It's the smallest unit of weight in the avoirdupois system; 7,000 equal 1 pound |
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He was handsome, wealthy, a good dancer, a lyre player, a wrestler... & he wrote "Antigone" too |
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1 of 2 Central American lands that share the Mosquito Coast, an area named for Indians not insects |
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This future president decisively defeated the Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend in 1814 |
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One of Raleigh's native bearers was eaten by a crocodile during his search for this legendary kingdom of gold |
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