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These "Thai" cats are born nearly white; they darken around their points as they grow older |
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This agency, the TVA, operates 29 hydroelectric dams |
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3 years before marching through Georgia, he was president of a St. Louis street railway |
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He completed "Les Miserables", his longest work, during a 15-year exile on the island of Guernsey |
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Madame de Maintenon was the sunshine of this "Sun King"'s life; they were secretly married, perhaps in 1683 |
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Patti Lupone played Nancy in a 1984 revival of this "Dickens" of a musical |
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The Cymric is a long-haired version of this tailless cat |
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Although he didn't invent baseball, he did fire the first Union shot at Fort Sumter |
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Samson in the 1949 feature "Samson and Delilah", he played Samson's father in the 1984 TV remake |
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Legend says "Fair Rosamund", a lover of Henry II, was poisoned by order of Henry's wife, this heiress of Aquitaine |
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The song "Human Again", cut from this Disney film, reappeared in the Broadway musical |
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Alphabetically, it's the first breed of cat recognized by most cat organizations |
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Completed in 1932, a 19-mile-long dam in this country created the Ijsselmeer from part of the Zuiderzee |
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For forcing the surrender of New Orleans on April 25, 1862, he was promoted to rear admiral |
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This composer of "Babes in Toyland" was born in Dublin & trained in music in Stuttgartf |
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Margaret Drummond, lover of this country's a King James IV, was murdered with poisoned porridge in 1501 |
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This musical about a bordello was an Actors' Studio workshop production before it reached Broadway |
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This large cat from the "Down East" region has 3 tufted paws for easy snow travel |
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The volume of this dam on the Nile is about 17 times that of the great pyramid at Giza |
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This "Ben hur" author was a member of the court that tried the Lincoln assassination conspirators |
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This first woman to run for the U.S. presidency was married at age 15 |
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This actress & orange-seller was the apple of Charles II's eye |
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Jonathan Larson, who wrote this 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, died before its opening night |
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This nearly hairless cat whose name suggests an ancient structure appeared in the 1960s |
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Gatun Lake, part of this waterway, was created by damming the Chagres River |
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Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, Lincoln appointed this "Pathfinder" a major general |
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He directed "The Wizard of Oz" & "Gone with the Wind" in the same year–1939 |
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Camilla Parker Bowles' great-grandmother Alice Keppel was a mistress of this king who reigned 1901-1910 |
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Perhaps it was fate that won Alfred Drake the role of Hajj in this 1953 musical |
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