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In 1493, he happened upon the small island of Marie-Galante, which was later named for one of his ships |
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Naturally, it's the title song as Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra play old-time baseball players |
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Old French for "daily" gives us this type of register in which events of the day are recorded |
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Showing the Irish warts & all, J.M. Synge's play "The Playboy of the Western World" caused riots in this capital in 1907 |
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Legend says it became a symbol of the Byzantine Empire after the moon suddenly appeared, exposing a sneak attack |
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In January of 1898 the USS Maine was sent to this city's harbor; it would not see another new year |
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A 2-mile-wide channel known as the Narrows separates St. Kitts from this sister island |
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"The Sound Of Silence" is heard in the opening of this 1967 film |
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This snoop who overhears a conversation is named for part of a roof |
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George Bernard Shaw won an Oscar for adapting this play of his featuring Professor Higgins & Eliza |
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One corner of the steel frame is left open in this percussion instrument that hangs by a loop & is struck with a rod |
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The Bounty set out for this French Polynesian island in 1787 in search of breadfruit |
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This Caribbean country's Morant Bay Courthouse was burned during the 1865 riots that led to England's recall of the governor |
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This future "Masked Singer" competitor sang the theme from "Ghostbusters" |
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Greeks called this beast megas strouthos, "big sparrow", or strouthokamelos, "sparrow-camel"; we know it as this |
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It's a historic Irish coronation site, the O'Hara home in American lit, & the title "Road" where Maeve Binchy set a novel |
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The bounded interior of a Star of David forms this shape |
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Launched in 1797, this ship in more recent years has been known to fire cannon salutes while tooling around Boston Harbor |
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Just off the Yucatan is this largest of Mexico's islands in the Caribbean, once a stop for Cortes' army |
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He crooned "Wicked Game", featured in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" |
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This word comes from the Hindi for "massage"; it's more familiar as a sudsy shower substance |
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This 3-named Irish author was a goner for actress Maud Gonne, who starred in his play "Cathleen ni Houlihan" |
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Leaves shaped like a hand are called palmate, & those shaped like feathers get this similar designation |
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Before its more famous departure from Plymouth, the Mayflower set sail from this "directional" English port |
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These islands, the northwesterly section of the Lesser Antilles, are the Îles Sous-le-Vent in French |
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"Diamond Girl" is on the '70s-heavy soundtrack of this 2021 film with a title that describes an LP |
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This first portion of the small intestine is named for its length of about 12 fingerbreadths |
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Born in Ireland in 1667, he wrote political pamphlets as well as satires |
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This broad muscle of the upper back & neck gets its name from its resemblance to a quadrilateral with one set of parallel sides |
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In 1998 this battleship left Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to go to Pearl Harbor, where it would become a museum |
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