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SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES |
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This Dane's first novel "The Improviser", was published the same year as his first book of fairy tales |
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Claiming he was innocent, Captain Kidd was hanged in 1701 in this English capital for murder & piracy |
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A fine series of these paintings on fresh plaster in Assisi is tentatively attributed to Giotto |
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If you're out in this European mountain range you may find the Inn Valley |
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The inventor of this substitute named it after the Greek word for "pearly"--margarites |
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Friar Lawrence urges her to join "a sisterhood of holy nuns" but she ignores him & kills herself |
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In this first Tom Clancy novel, the captain of a Soviet sub decides to defect with his ship |
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This first prime minister of independent India was educated in England at Harrow & Cambridge |
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His father, Auguste Manet, worked for the Ministry of Justice & wanted him to become a lawyer |
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Bayern is the German name of this German state known for its beer |
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Ancient Greeks used this pressed oil from the fruit of the Olea Europaea for skin lotion & anointings |
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This comedy ends in Lucentio's house, not in Petruchio's |
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Sherwood Anderson helped this Mississippian find a publisher for "Soldier's Pay", his first novel |
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For health reasons, this founder of the Boy Scouts spent his last years in Kenya |
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As an art student in Madrid he met director Luis Bunuel with whom he later made the film "An Andalusian Dog" |
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Though Bornholm is a Danish island, it's much closer to this Scandinavian country than to Denmark |
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This type of fat found in plum pudding can be used to make tallow candles |
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The last scene of this tragedy takes place in a pavilion in Titus' garden in Rome |
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He introduced intelligence agent George Smiley in 1961's "Call for the Dead" |
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King Haakon I of this country was killed in battle while fighting Erik Bloodax' sons |
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He was 24 when he first painted Spain's Philip IV who became his patron |
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An island called the Calf of Man lies southwest of the Isle of Man in this sea |
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The name of this oil was changed from "rapeseed oil" by the Canadian oil-seed industry |
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This prince of Tyre discovers the wife he believed was dead has become a priestess of Diana |
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Later a Bertolucci film, this first novel by Paul Bowles is considered a model of existential fiction |
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William H. Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase during this president's administration |
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In 1906 Rodin invited this Romanian sculptor to work in his studio, but he refused |
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At 7,339 feet, Mount Orohena on this island is the highest point in the Society Islands |
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Found in fish, omega-3 oils are thought to lower the level of this bad cholesterol |
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Shortly before he dies this king laments, "And my poor fool is hang'd!" |
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