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Thousands of pages of his notebooks survive; to read them you'll need a mirror because he wrote backwards |
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George Washington added these 4 words at the end of the presidential oath of office |
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One island is the supposed burial place of this reckless mythical flier, & is named for him |
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Jimmy Stewart played Buttons, the clown with a mysterious past, in this 1952 De Mille drama |
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He's Shakespeare's melancholy Dane |
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It's defined as the combination of 2 seemingly contradictory words, like "deafening silence" |
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In 1421 Filippo Brunelleschi designed the first Renaissance building, the Foundling Hospital in this city |
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Type of "oath" you might take to be a Mafioso in good standing, or what you might then be asked to spill |
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The town of Karistos on Euboea has been producing this white building material for millennia |
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Much to his humiliation, this title critter of a 1941 animated classic is forced to join the clown act |
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A 1912 Norton & Burnett tune pined, "Come to me my melancholy" this |
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When this is used objects or abstractions are endowed with human traits, as in "The clouds wept" |
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He designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, but it was Giacomo Della Porto who built it |
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In the 1950s anti-European farmers in Kenya took an oath to join this secret group |
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Monemvasia, seen here, is known for its resemblance to this British possession |
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This 1991 Bobcat Goldthwait film was hailed as "the 'Citizen Kane' of alcoholic clown movies" |
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Group that released the punny 1995 album "Melon Collie And The Infinite Sadness" |
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It's a specific comparison using "like" or "as"; "cool as a cucumber", for example |
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In 1500 her husband, Alfonso of Aragon, was murdered on orders of her brother Cesare |
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A painting by Jacques-Louis David depicts "The Oath of" these Roman triplets |
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Fittingly, this crowded island shares its name with a many-headed monster, slain by Hercules |
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With the Italian documentary "The Clowns", this director explored his fascination with the circus |
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His book on the stuff Zarathustra Spake includes the chapter "The Sons Of Melancholy" |
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From the Greek for "orator", it's the art or study of using language effectively |
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This sonneteer's "Canzoniere" consists of 366 poems, many of them love lyrics to a mystery lady named Laura |
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In Norse myth, all plants except mistletoe swore not to harm this son of Odin & god of beauty |
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Its name is an Italian corruption of the Greek coryphai, meaning "crests" |
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In a segment of 1956's "Invitation to the Dance", this dancer plays a clown in love with a circus performer |
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This French philosopher & author of "Confessions" was nicknamed "Melancholy Jacques" |
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As in "all hands on deck", it's the figurative use of a part of something for the whole |
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