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Sadly, both she & her daughter Irene, also a scientist, died of leukemia caused by radiation |
Marie Curie
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Due to its icecap, no one is sure whether this world's largest island is one island or many |
Greenland
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His father, a Salzburg teacher, wrote a treatise on the fundamental principles of violin playing |
W.A. Mozart
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Encyclopedia Americana calls the Homeric form of this "an artificial literary language" |
Greek
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His "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was published in 1786 with about half the 600 copies pre-sold |
Robert Burns
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Hayes' number as president, or the century in which he served |
19
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Much of our knowledge of ancient science comes from a 37-book work by this naturalist, The Elder |
Pliny
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Japan's highest mountain range, the Japanese Alps, rises in the central part of this island |
(T: What is Hokkaido?)
Honshu
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In 1859 this "Swan Lake" composer graduated from the St. Petersburg School of Jurisprudence |
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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The word Mexico comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Toltecs & these other ancient people |
Aztecs
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Before this poet died on October 25, 1400, he was living in a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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When William Wheeler was first suggested for this post, Hayes asked "Who is Wheeler?" |
Vice president
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This botanist, known for his classification system, was also the first to use the symbols for male & female |
Carl Linnaeus
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A 15 1/2-mile-long causeway connects this Persian Gulf nation with the Saudi Arabian mainland |
Bahrain
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His "Water Music" was performed during an aquatic fete held by King George I on the Thames July 17, 1717 |
G.F. Handel
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Abruzzese is a dialect of this language |
Italian
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The first line of this poet's "Endymion" is "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" |
John Keats
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Hayes' wife, she was the 1st first lady to earn a college degree |
"Lemonade Lucy" Hayes
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In 1918 this orignator of the quantum theory won the Nobel Prize for Physics |
Max Planck
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The largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, it's been called the "Pearl of the Mediterranean" |
Majorca
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His "Fingal's Cave" is also known as the "Hebrides Overture" |
Felix Mendelssohn
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Rif is a Berber language spoken mainly in the northern part of this continent |
Africa
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In 1883 Queen Victoria gave this poet laureate the title "Baron of Aldworth & Freshwater" |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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His last executive order was to ban the sale of this at army camps & forts |
Alcohol
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In 1913 this Danish physicist proposed the first modern model of the atom |
Niels Bohr
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In 1616 Jacob Lemaire became the first European to see what is now this Pacific island kingdom |
Tonga
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In 1855 this "Orpheus in the Underworld" composer opened his own theater, the Bouffes Parisiens |
Jacques Offenbach
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The fables known as the Panchatantra were originally written in this classical language |
Sanskrit
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In 1714, two years after "The Rape of the Lock" was first published, he expanded it from 2 cantos to 5 |
Alexander Pope
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Hayes served two terms as governor of this state |
Ohio
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