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A sonata is to be played; the word "cantata" means a work to be performed this way |
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This mark of punctuation combines 2 other punctuation marks |
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At Harvard, Tony Hsieh sold pizzas out of his dorm room; today he's the CEO of this largest online shoe retailer |
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The company named for him traces its origins to the founding of Muppets, Inc. in 1958 |
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She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
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Alessandro Scarlatti's "O di Betlemme altera" was written for this holiday |
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This fuse or percussion cap is used to set off an explosive charge |
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It's Nebraska's top plant crop |
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Penn.-raised Daniel Dae Kim had to relearn Korean to play Jin Kwon on this early 2000s adventure series |
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In 2013 this onetime Thomas Edison company sold its stake in NBC & Universal Studios |
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The life & death dates for this poet in Britannica simply say, "flourished 9th or 8th century BCE?, Ionia? (now in Turkey)" |
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A Handel cantata tells the story of this Greek god & his pursuit of Daphne |
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The derivation & history of a word |
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The people of this Indiana city call themselves Hauteans |
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Husband & wife Andrew & Peggy Cherng founded & run the 1,500-plus restaurants in this chain; who ordered orange chicken? |
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In this company's full name, the "G" stands for David Geffen |
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This hard-boiled writer took the big sleep for real on March 26, 1959 |
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"Wachet Auf", one of Bach's greatest cantatas, is based on a hymn of this Christian denomination |
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In computer lingo, it's the reduced "digital" image of a graphic used so that multiple images can be viewed on a page |
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Its state song is heard here |
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This daughter of Chinese immigrants competed nationally as a figure skater before going into bridal wear design |
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In a 2013 spat, this cable company's customers lost CBS for a month |
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Published posthumously in 2003, a novel by this Brooklyn guy was titled "Catch as Catch Can" |
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This German was only 1 opera into his career when he wrote a New Year's cantata to welcome 1835 |
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From the Latin for "rise up", it's one who rebels against an established government; today it's often used to mean "terrorist" |
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Tonka Toys got their name from this lake, one of the largest in the Land of 10,000 Lakes |
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In 1989 he became the youngest male winner of tennis' French Open |
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Once there was a "Big Six" of these; the 2012 breakup of EMI took it down to 3 |
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In 1991 this Brooklyn guy penned "Harlot's Ghost", focusing on the CIA |
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