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Fragments of poems about Baal were descovered in the early 1930s on tablets made of this |
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Armed Forces Day & Memorial Day are both observed during this month |
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This Grand Detour, Illinois blacksmith invented the steel plow around 1838 |
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These identifying features are categorized on the basis of arches, loops & whorls |
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Of Delmonico, Filet Mignon or Chateaubriand, the one who was a French novelist |
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His friends were cast into the fiery furnace & he was cast into the lion's den |
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The tall, large-headed statues on this Pacific island were carved from tuff, a volcanic rock |
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This summer month's birthstone is the ruby & its special flower, the water lily |
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She was called "The Angel of the Battlefield" for her efforts in caring for Civil War wounded |
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Blood cells are suspended in this liquid that's 95% water |
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In a Voltaire novel, this title character arrives in Lisbon just in time for the 1755 earthquake |
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Lot chose to reside in this one of the five cities of the plain |
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The House of the Deer is an unusual villa preserved in this once-buried city near Pompeii |
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The U.S. entered the Revolutlonary War, the Civil War & WWI during this month |
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In 1856 this abolitionist & his men killed 5 in a guerrilla raid in Pottawatomie, Kansas |
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A fuel cell converts chemical energy directly to this kind of energy |
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In an 1831 novel, Esmeralda hides from a mob in the belfry of this building |
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This king of Israel's famous harp was actually a type of lyre called a kinnor |
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Ruins of Mayan temples & palaces have been found at Tikal in this country that borders Belize |
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On the original 12-month Roman calendar, it was the twelfth month |
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After Jim Bowie fell ill at the Alamo, Texans fought under the sole command of this lieutenant colonel |
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A representation of an object formed by an optical instrument, it can be "virtual" or "real" |
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"The Paths of Freedom" was a 4-volume series of novels that this existentialist never completed |
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The Babylonian form of hes name was Nabu-Kudurri-Usur |
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The ancient Clovis culture was named for a site in this SW state where its artifacts were discovered |
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James Whitcomb Riley said it's about "knee-deep in" this month that "strawberries melts on the vine" |
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This noted lexicographer helped found Amherst College in 1821 |
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The islets of Langerhans in this organ also produce glucagon |
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Most of book V of his novel "Gargantua and Pantagruel" was probably written by an impostor |
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Although he's often called Adam's third son, Genesis 5:3 implies he was first |
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