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NEAR EAST ANCIENT HISTORY |
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In 1931 2 Americans modified the Mercalli scale to measure the intensity of these in California |
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A sexually confused stable boy is the focus of this ballet based on Peter Shaffer's play of the same name |
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This Asian-born architect designed Boston's John Hancock Tower |
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To be or knot to be, it was the capital of Phrygia |
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Strunk & White's 5th rule of usage says, do not join independent clauses with this; use a semicolon, as we just did |
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There were only 63 known elements when this Russian devised the periodic table |
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At Wimbledon 1969, aged 41, this Mexican-American saved 7 match points to beat Charlie Pasarell |
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The 1938 premiere of this ballet featured Lew Christensen in the role of Pat Garrett |
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From his mother's surname, the "Glass Skyscraper" architect added van der Rohe to this name |
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With the kingdom split, in 920 B.C. you had Rehoboam ruling Judah & Jeroboam ruling this |
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This 5-letter word means break down a sentence into subject, object & predicate, or describe a word's grammatical role |
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The Earth's crust consists of about 46% oxygen; this element is second most abundant at about 28% |
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His last-minute field goal won Super Bowl XXXVI for the Patriots |
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Von Rotbart is the evil, bird-like sorcerer in this classic 1877 ballet |
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Frank Lloyd Wright was a pupil of this noted Chicago architect, whom Wright called his "Lieber Meister" |
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Dagon was the top god of these people whose name has come to mean "uncouth" & "unsophisticated" |
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Besides fancy-sounding, "in lieu of salary" is this type of grammatical phrase |
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Mayonnaise is an example of this colloidal dispersion of liquid particles in another liquid |
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In 1986, with the Springfield Fame, she became the first woman to play in a men's pro basketball league |
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In 1911 this great dancer leapt into immortality with his magnificent exit leap in "Le spectre de la rose" |
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This American architect who turned 95 in 2001 is known for his "Glass House" of 1949 |
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Scholars label Old Persian royal inscriptions X for Xerxes, C for Cyrus & D for him |
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A helping group, like the ladies' one of the VFW, or a helping verb like will or may |
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In 1896 this French scientist accidentally discovered radioactivity while researching fluorescence |
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NHL goalie nicknames include Nikolai Khabibulin's "Bulin Wall" & this Maple Leaf player's "Cujo" |
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This choreographer played one of the sailors when his ballet "Fancy Free" premiered in 1944 |
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Surveyor General of royal buildings, he designed & constructed London's Covent Garden in the early 1630s |
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We know Carians were in Egypt from graffiti they carved into a big Ramses statue at this temple site |
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The Spanish levantarse, "to get up", is this type of verb whose subject & object are identical |
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