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U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS |
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The Hall opened May 5th, 1891, as this first world-famous Russian composer, on his only U.S. trip, conducted his own work |
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In 1959 Greece reached an agreement with Britain & Turkey to make this British Crown colony independent |
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From a French word meaning "alone", it's a single diamond in a setting, be it a ring or a pendant |
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This New York island is named for the fact that it extends almost 120 miles |
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Robert Ludlum wrote the first 3 novels featuring this spy; the last 10 were written by Eric van Lustbader |
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The work seen here is titled "The Young" this lad "Learning a Skilled Trade" |
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In 1964, the Beatles brought rock 'n' roll to Carnegie Hall & opened with this song that's a bit cheeky to a great composer |
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In 2015 Greece signed a 3-year bailout program & this fund agreed to help if Europe restructured the debt |
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Over 40 carats, the largest diamond found in the U.S. was discovered in 1924 in what is now this state's Crater of Diamonds park |
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Washington's? That would be Whidbey Island in this sound |
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This submarine tale was the first of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels |
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Placating another's demands to pacify him |
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His 1983 special at Carnegie Hall included his last recorded version of one of his most famous bits
"After a while, I realized that I was needlessly restricting myself to seven words and only to the ones that weren't allowed on TV" |
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Many thought Greece would get the Olympics again in this centennial year of the games, but it happened 8 years later |
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For movie publicity photos in 1961, she wore the 128.5-carat Tiffany Diamond |
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Ohioans call Kelleys Island in this lake "the Walleye Capital of the World" |
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Neil Armstrong provided the title of this 1975 Jack Higgins novel about a Nazi plot to kidnap Winston Churchill |
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3-syllable word for any court considering the reversal of legal decisions |
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In 1906, Mark Twain presided at this great educator's Tuskegee Institute Silver Anniversary lecture |
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In 480 B.C. this son of Darius invaded Greece but the Greek navy defeated him at the Bay of Salamis & he returned to Persia |
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The world's largest producer of diamonds by value is this South African company, formed by Cecil Rhodes |
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California's Santa Cruz island is one of this group; the British Isles have a group of the same name |
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1991 's "The Secret Pilgrim" was the last of John le Carre's 8 novels featuring this spy |
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The act of taking something for one's own use |
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In the 5th century B.C., Sparta led a league of city-states on this peninsula to combat Athens' Delian League |
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Popular diamond cuts or shapes include the round, the marquise & this one named for another gemstone |
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Home to the town of Bar Harbor, Maine is Mount this island |
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This author's 2015 bestseller "The English Spy" is the 15th to feature the spy & assassin Gabriel Allon |
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Hardy breed & official state symbol seen here |
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