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LOSING YOUR HEAD IN THE MOVIES |
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Completes the title of Edward Gibbon's masterpiece "The History of the Decline and Fall of..." |
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This Cherokee Indian gave his name to both a giant tree & the California nat'l park where you'll find it |
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You don't need any super powers to know that Kr is the chemical symbol for this noble gas |
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In this film Christina Ricci loses her head over Johnny Depp who's chasing a headless murderer |
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Brandywine, Bunker Hill, Concord |
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Hannibal Lecter could tell you it's an equal exchange; its Latin meaning is "something for something" |
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The heroine of his novel "Roxana" leads almost as saucy a life as his more famous Moll Flanders |
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She once whisked Eleanor Roosevelt away for an airplane ride over Washington, both still in evening gowns |
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The temperature of this smokeless laboratory heating device is controlled by the amount of air in the tube |
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Film in which Jennings loses his head over a little boy named Damien with a devil-may-care attitude |
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Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Nashville |
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From the Old French for "man", it's a special honor expressed publicly for a person |
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E.M. Forster & Virginia Woolf were part of a floral-sounding literary "Group" named for this London district |
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It's the last name of famed anthropologists Louis, Mary, Richard & Meave |
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It's a substance that reacts with an acid to decrease or neutralize its acidic properties; lye, for example |
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In this 1998 film Michael Myers loses his head over Jamie Lee Curtis 20 years after their first date |
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The Bulge, Stalingrad, Iwo Jima |
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The name of this sea may come from the Lithuanian word for "white" |
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One of his most famous works, "A child's Christmas in Wales", wasn't published until 2 years after his death |
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"Father of the Supercomputer" who once said, "I was one of those nerds before the name was popular" |
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Brad Pitt uncovers the deadly sin, as wife Gwyneth Paltrow loses her head over Kevin Spacey in this movie |
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Khe Sanh, the Tet Offensive, Con Thien |
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Representative of the world in miniature, it's from the Greek for "small world" |
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An African safari is the setting for his famous story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" |
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In 1850 this "colorful" Scotsman founded one of the first detective agencies in the U.S. |
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In this type of bond, 2 bonded atoms each contribute 1 electron to a pair, which the atoms then share |
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In this film David Gale loses his head over Jeffrey Combs; in the sequel grafted bat wings give him new life |
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The Chosin Reservoir, Unsan, Inchon |
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Meaning empty boasting, it comes from the name of a loud-mouthed braggart in Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" |
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