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When he was knighted in 1997, he told reporters it was a long way from Liverpool |
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In Robert Browning's "Two in the Campagna", she's the other one |
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Pachinko is a variety of this arcade game that one might find in a Tokyo parlor |
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A synodic month, on average 29.53059 days, is based primarily on the movement of this |
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This country's flightless Auckland Island & Campbell Island teals are among the rarest ducks in the world |
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Wildly successful electronics product introduced in October 2001 |
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In 1535 this author & statesman lost his head, literally, after refusing to accept Henry VIII as head of the church |
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This 1852 book inspired John Greenleaf Whittier to write his poem "Eva" |
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If you're eating a bento bako meal, you're eating something in this type of container |
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In 1832 this measure was defined as the distance between lines 27 & 63 on a certain metallic bar |
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This largest penguin breeds in the coldest environment of any bird |
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A scrod is a young one of this Atlantic fish |
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This courtier was imprisoned in the Tower of London when he wrote his 1614 "History of the World" |
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Poe wrote that he laid "down by the side" of this maiden "in her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea" |
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On the New York Times bestseller list, this Japanese word has its own category |
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This liquor measure is twice the actual alcohol content by volume |
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It's the fastest of all flightless birds |
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Natty British rockers The Jam exemplified this fashion style |
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For his discovery of penicillin, he received a Nobel Prize & in 1944, a knighthood |
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Her last name was Bellefontaine & the Longfellow poem about her details her search for lost love Gabriel Lajeunesse |
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To mark the launch of Pokemon, Kansas' capital was renamed this for a day in 1998 |
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When a soldier refers to something being a "klick" away, he means this metric distance |
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This largest Australian bird adds pebbles to its diet to help digest the plant material that it eats |
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2-syllable word meaning sloppy or careless |
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Last name of naval officer & explorer Sir James Clark, who gave his name to a sea, an island & an ice shelf |
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In a Tennyson poem, she lives in a castle on an island in a river that rhymingly flows "down to Camelot" |
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Japanese name of the city-stomping creature who first appeared in a 1954 Japanese film |
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This measure of wood is equal to 128 cubic feet |
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This large bird of New Guinea has a casque, or helmet, made of a spongelike material covered with keratin |
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The man seen here is a carrier of this brick container |
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