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LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS |
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Elongated spines help these creatures reach their incredible speeds |
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The wealthy Nadezhda von Meck gave this "Swan Lake" composer 6,000 rubles a year but refused to ever meet him |
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This voice artist: "That's all folks" |
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Reaching 318 mph, the strongest winds ever documented were part of one of these in Oklahoma |
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"From early childhood he had used his hands to swing from branch to branch" like his ape mother, Kala |
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These predators of the tropics can mass in huge numbers and turn much larger animals into their prey |
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In 1918 he teamed with older brother Ira for the first time, a collaboration that lasted until his death in 1937 |
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This talk show host & game show creator: "I will not be right back after this message" |
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It's a group of fast-moving wind currents in the troposphere advantageous to eastbound airline travel |
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This Astrid Lindgren character is described as having "hair the color of a carrot" |
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Proverbially, do this "because you'll meet them on your way down" |
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A 2013 study finds the mouth cooties of this carrion eater aren't lethal, as was thought |
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It's been said that the 1831 capture of Warsaw by the Russians led him to write his "revolutionary" etude |
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Whitney Houston: "The Voice" & this 5-word song title |
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Some of these 3-bladed modern-day windmills are designed for extra-breezy areas |
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Dolores Haze was the real name of this 12-year-old nymphet who stood "four feet ten in one sock" |
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It was a 2004 newspaper headline about Mr. Canseco's try for a comeback with the Dodgers |
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Its long arms allow it to move with great agility through the treetops |
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In 1727 this German composer became a naturalized British subject under George I |
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This "Happy Days" actor: "Fiorello, sheriff, priest...and forever 'Mr. C.'" |
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Also the name of a Volkswagen model, it's a hot African desert wind that can blow all the way to Europe |
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A tale of the Soviet labor camps tells of "one day in the life" of him, patronymic Denisovich, last name Shukhov |
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It's kind of a canal on steroids; a famous one was completed in 1959 |
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This Frenchman dedicated his 1908 piano suite "Children's Corner" to his young daughter Claude-Emma |
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This actor & sitcom pioneer: "And away we go" |
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A common scale of wind velocities was devised in 1805 by Sir Francis Beaufort of this military group |
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This Sinclair Lewis title character is a real estate salesman who lives in the suburbs of the city of Zenith |
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A certain amount of freedom; or punningly, the method of movie director Ang |
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